- FLORENCE, 07 FEB - An exhibition will open on Feb. 24 and
run through Aug. 1 called "Le Tre Pietà di Michelangelo. Non vi
si pensa quanto sangue costa" ("The Three Pietas of
Michelangelo, No Thought Towards How Much Blood it Costs").
The exhibition will be held in Florence's Opera del Duomo and
will bring together, for the first time, the original of the
Bandini Pietà, which was recently restored, as well as the
Vatican Pietà and the Rondanini Pietà from the Vatican Museums.
The exhibition, set up in the Tribuna di Michelangelo hall of
the Florentine museum, has bene organised as part of the
"Mediterranean, Frontier of Peace 2022" event.
The event will bring bishops and mayors from the
Mediterranean area to Florence.
Pope Francis will also take part.
Placed next to one another, a statement says, the three Pietà
sculptures will offer an opportunity to study the evolution of
Michelangelo's art as well as his spiritual maturation, from his
early youth - when in Rome he sculpted for the old Saint Peter's
Basilica the work now in the lateral nave of the northern part
of the Basilica - to his later years, when, as an elderly man,
he sculpted the Pietà now in Florence and then the Rondanini
Pieta held in Milan.
Curated by museum directors Barbara Jatta, Sergio Risaliti,
Claudio Salsi, and Timothy Verdon, the exhibition is a project
that will also see collaboration from the Vatican Museums, the
Opera del Duomo museum, Florence's Museo Novecento, Milan's
Castello Sforzesco, and the institutions of the Opera di Santa
Maria del Fiore, the Florence city council, the Milan city
council, and the Fabbrica di San Pietro.
In the autumn, the three works will be exhibited in Milan at
the Sala delle Cariatidi of Palazzo Reale and a catalogue will
be published.
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