Michelangelo's Florence Pietà
By: Jack Wasserman ; with contributions by Franca Trinchieri Camiz, Timothy Verdon, and  Peter Rockwell ; technical studies by ENEA, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, and IBM ; new photographs by Aurelio Amendola.
Contributors: Camiz, Franca Trinchieri.; Verdon, Timothy.; Rockwell, Peter.; Amendola, Aurelio.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564; Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Criticism and interpretation; Jesus Christ -- Art; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Art
Genres: Art.
Description: "This is the most thorough and revealing study ever made of one of Michelangelo's most beautiful, dramatic, and debated works of art: the Florence Pieta. The artist designed the monumental statue late in life for his own tomb, but after a decade of intermittent labor he badly damaged the work, which was later repaired by an assistant.

Jack Wasserman, the book's editor and main author, enlists the expertise of scholars Franca Trinchieri Camiz and Timothy Verdon, sculptor Peter Rockwell, and three teams of scientists to understand a work of extraordinary emotional power.

By examining all aspects of the statue's depiction of Christ and of his physical relationship to the other figures, especially the Virgin, this book brings to life Michelangelo's great struggle to give conclusive form to his own relationship to God - a relationship unmistakably reflected in the artist's representation of himself as the bearded figure supporting Christ."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.