Talk:Pietà (Michelangelo)

message: Is anyone else of the opinion that Michelangelo's Pietà should be referred to in that way, with the artist's name outside the italics? If not, why not? (We don't refer to Leonardo's Mona Lisa or Dalí's The Persistence of Memory!) But if so, what's the best way to do that? Wikipedia markup doesn't seem able to handle Michelangelo's Pietà, which is an odd oversight IMHO.
*If you wanted both words in the link, it'd be Michelangelo's Pietà, or Michelangelo's Pietà
*If you only want Pietà in the link, use Michelangelo's Pietà, or Michelangelo's Pietà
::~ Veledan | Talk | c. 23:36, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Article name change?

message: If the statue was not moved to St Peter's Basilica until the 18th Century, how can the following be true?: "...Michelangelo overheard someone remark that his Pietà was the work of the inferior sculptor Cristoforo Solari, a few days after the sculpture had been installed in St. Peter's"?  I expect we just need to delete the words in St Peter's but I'm not sure. ~ Veledan | Talk | c. 23:24, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  History sections don't add up 

message: Shouldn't there be something here about the statue appearing in the Vatican City pavillion of the 1964 World's Fair?
I just went to the Queens Museum of Art in New York City and there is a plaster cast of the statue.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.232.244.176 (talk) 00:40, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  World's Fair 

message: These two sources  claim that during the restoration of the sculpture, post 1970's attack, a second previously unknown monogram of Michelangelo's was discovered.  Apparently it is in the fold's of the palm of Mary's hand.  The Guardian states it is on Mary's left hand.  The second source says right hand, then says the outstretched hand which is actually Mary's left hand.  Maybe they mean right from the viewer's perspective?
Does anyone have more info on this?  Perhaps it should be added to the article? John Dalton 05:16, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Second Michelangelo Monogram? 

message: I tried to find if that's true (there are three replicas authorized by vatican), but I couldn't find it. Anyone? Janviermichelle 05:10, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think there are more than three replicas, depending on the medium.  This article says that one of three bronze replicas is at the Haggarty Museum of Art.  This webpage says that there are four fiberglass copies from a mold authorized by the Vatican.  (It's original research, but I have seen the one at St. Mary's).  TheronJ (talk) 22:30, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  three authorized replicas? 

message: i just think it would be cool to know how he made it. it looks so realistic it is hard to think of what he did to get it to look like that. i'm not going to research it, just thought it would be cool.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.7.2.43 (talk) 23:51, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:   He WAS a sculptor, that is usually what he did.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.184.241.144 (talk) 02:40, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  how is it made? 

message: The Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary Queen of the Universe, Orlando, FL, recently began exhibiting a full scale bronze replica of Michelangelo's Pieta.    The cast is from the original plaster mold taken from the Pieta in St. Peters Basilica in Rome by the Fonderia Artistica Ferdinando Marinelli, Florence, Italy in 1932.  I verified this directly with the foundry.Fonderiamarinelli, Florenze, Italy  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pgonz34711 (talk • contribs) 00:23, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Authorized Replica 

message: My interpretation was not represented in this section, and I can't imagine that no one else takes it the way I do.  To me it is combining the two main images of Christianity into one.  The manger scene and the crucifixion. 24.207.131.20 (talk) 00:42, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  interpretations 

message: At 1:11 of this video:(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-VpXvi0dOU), it shows the nose.
This article says that the nose was taken and never returned. Seems that is incorrect based on the video.
- Brady Mower
about.me/bradymower  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.23.11.154 (talk) 13:55, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error - looks like nose wasn't taken 

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Michelangelo's Pieta 5450 cropncleaned edit.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on April 18, 2014. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2014-04-18. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:41, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Michelangelo's Pieta 5450 cropncleaned edit.jpg]]

message: Here are some close up fotos in high res:
Pictures  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.244.107.24 (talk) 06:21, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  pictures 

message: What if there this was not the Virgin Mary but that of Mary Jesus' Wife? Magdalene would fit better as the age is obviously important to Michelangelo when sculpting this masterpiece. We know that there was coded messages within his artwork? In Mark’s gospel it is Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome who arrive at the tomb with spices for a proper anointing of the body. In this account, the stone is already rolled away when they arrive, but the angel is there with the same message: “He has been raised; he is not here.”
In Luke’s gospel it is Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and “other women” who encounter not one but two angels at the empty tomb.
And in John’s gospel it was Mary Magdalene alone.  The gospel accounts may differ about which women were present that morning, but they all agree that the women saw an angel (or two), an empty tomb, and, most important of all, they saw and spoke to the resurrected Jesus. In each of the accounts, the women see Jesus.  In each of the accounts the women are the first witnesses to the resurrected Christ.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by RReali158 (talk • contribs) 21:03, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the definitive proof that this is Mary, the Virgin Mary mother of Christ and not Mary Magdalene ? 

message: Does anyone know where the cast taken was stored before and during the war?
Soggiornoselvaggio (talk) 17:21, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of cast taken by Marinelli Foundry between 1932-1945? 

message: Wouldn't it be notable to add to this article the fact that Michelangelo was just 24 years of age when this work was completed? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 08:22, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: To add to article