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# Pietà
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/renaissance-the-blood-and-the-beauty/extras/pieta-jz2obx/
- Published: 2025-06-10T13:45:55.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T14:57:04.000Z
- Description: Michelangelo carves his Pietà – a remarkable image of the Madonna holding her dead son.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty, #ZZZ_Show_dd5fe9cb-94a4-42c3-8637-4c40bdd936f0, #geo-us, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_a9f2d4d5-6c05-4eac-a5b7-8ce53a9fb59e, #extra

Michelangelo carves his Pietà – a remarkable image of the Madonna holding her dead son. He is determined to “make something of such great and rare beauty that no one who saw it would not be moved to pity.”