Museo Pietà Rondanini
Museo Pietà Rondanini stands in Milan’s historic Sforza Castle, inside the former Spanish hospital in the Cortile delle Armi. You encounter Michelangelo’s final sculpture, a marble Pietà showing Mary supporting Christ’s lifeless body.
Michelangelo worked on the sculpture between 1552 and 1554, when he was around eighty, and left it unfinished at his death in 1564. Its 1.95-metre height and rough, incomplete forms create a striking contrast between carved detail and untouched marble. Originally intended for his tomb, the work later stood in Rome’s Palazzo Rondanini before Milan acquired it in 1952.
Since 2015, the sculpture has occupied this intimate setting within the castle’s civic collections. Walk around it and the changing views reveal how the unfinished surfaces shape Mary and Christ into a slender, almost abstract union.
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