Period High Renaissance | Dimensions 253 cm (100 in) Genre Kinetic art Year 1555 | |
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Location Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze Similar Michelangelo artwork, High Renaissance artwork, Kinetic art artwork | ||
The Palestrina Pietà is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance, dating from c. 1555 and housed in the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy. It was formerly attributed to Michelangelo, but now it is mostly considered to have been completed by someone else. The sculpture depicts three figures, one of them the body of Jesus Christ.
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