Florintine Pieta
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1st version...Wax Model Gigli Collection, Florence, Italy
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| Second version ..etching by Cherbino Alberti, 1580, The pre-sketch for this etching does not show the Left leg of Christ. So the pre- sketch may have been drawn directly off the statue. And the engraving fininished off 1)the second model or 2) from the first model or 3) the artist's imagination. |
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Florentine Pieta 1548-1556 Michelangelo stopped working on it in 1556 who gave it to Francesco Bandini who had Tiberio Calcagni work on it. Calcagni died a few months after Michelangelo did and never finished it. |
Bas Relief about 1560
| the art experts say this is by a pupil of Michelangelo. But who knows it could be a real Michelangelo. |