Michelangelo's Pieta by Victoria Taylor-Gore

This is a video I made about Michelangelo's Pieta for my online Art Appreciation course...a little better that a PowerPoint:)

Music - The Lamentation of David (arr. A. L'Estrange) byAntony Pitts
And - Moses And Marco Polo Suite Journey by Yo-Yo Ma

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet%C3%A0_(Michelangelo)
And A World of Art by Henry M. Sayre, 5th Edition

My website: http://www.victoriataylorgore.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• art
• appreciation
• Michelangelo
• Pieta
• marble
• sculpture

[tbtb67]

For me this is the greatest masterpiece in the entire world of art.

It's beyond believe that a 24 years old Michelangelo was able to create such a thing........ Thank God I saw it with my eyes in Rome last spring.

[vtg60]

It is absolutely amazing...thanks for commenting, tbtb67!

[tbtb67]

I knew this masterpiece long ago when I was a boy and finaly I saw it... It was really amazing feeling. Thanks for your comment.

[uncatila]

mother of Incarnate Light might I sit near thee tonight I have heard your sorrows fall In every teardrop one and all So plaintive did you gently weep it woke me from my sounding sleep And broke my heart with such a sorrow To lose your child before tomorrow then nature caused me to repent from every prayer I had not sent for ever mom’s lost lullaby to every child that ceased to cry oh mother’s love undying slave within the cradle and the grave

[goldie0800]

Of all the works of art the Pieta is the one I always admired most. It is so moving to see the beautiful details here. Thanks for posting it vtg60.

[blondewoman]

The pain of a mother

[endgammer]

@tbtb67 I will see it this spring. My father saw it at the up-close at the NY World's and was speechless.

[VictorLepanto]

@tbtb67 I understand perfectly well the necessity of such precautions. I am just lamenting them. They preclude one from exploring the work as thoroughly as one would like. I haven seen innumerable images of it in books over the years. I do most distinctly noting the seeming faint smile on the lips of Jesus in an art book in my school days. I was hoping to be able to examine it more up close but I couldn't. I wish they could move it to the center of the floor.

[tbtb67]

@VictorLepanto Yes it is kept behind glass,but what if someone crazy or fanatic

decide to break it... They keep Mona Lisa the same way .

I was in Milano in a castle where the last pieta of Michelangelo is kept,and there were no glass but a guard stood at hand so when I touched it he was alert .

These masterpieces of world art will always be kept, but the good thing is that we can still see them and admire the glory of the genius.

[VictorLepanto]

@tbtb67: I was disappointed, not in the work but in the display of it. It is (or was then) kept in a niche behind glass. W/ the crowd also, it was inpossible to more around the scupture & appreciate it from all angles.

None-the-less, from the pictures on this video, you can see how on Christ's mouth, there is the fainted hint of a smile. As if a man after very difficult labor, has gone to sleep, contented he has completed his task.

[l7lll]

Thank you SO MUCH for posting this.............

[l7lll]

I hope you know how LUCKY you are.....