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

Risen Christ (detail)

1521
Marble
Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

In this work, as in the 1499 Pietà, Michelangelo did not portray pain as redemption in the medieval way, but perfect beauty as the expression of its consequence.




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