The first of the Pietas sculpted by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was the one he produced in Rome around 1500, still to be admired in St. Peter's.
.:. The Pieta you can see here in the Sforza Castle – no longer enclosed in its long-time, splendid shell-shaped panelling, but moved in May 2015 in an autonomous exhibition room – is the last (c. 1555) of the four Pietas Michelangelo sculpted. It was bought by the City of Milan in 1952.
.:. The art historians, Peter and Linda Murray, wrote that the "nearly abstract" – unfinished, in fact – Rondanini Pietà "is charged with an emotional intensity which contemporaries recognized as Michelangelo's terribilità. He was working on it to within a few days of his death, in his 89th year".

Piazza Castello 
Cairoli
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