Artist field note

Michelangelo

The body becomes destiny.

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Pieta by Michelangelo
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Pieta

1498-1499

Marble somehow carries the softness of flesh and the weight of grief.

The five in one idea

For Michelangelo, the human body was the greatest stage ever invented.