MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
(b. 1475, Caprese, d. 1564, Roma)

Pietà (detail)

c. 1550
Marble, height 226 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence

According to Vasari, the Florentine Pietà includes a self-portrait of the artist as Nicodemus and had originally been intended to surmount Michelangelo's own tomb.