Pietà

Michelangelo worked for years, to the point of frenzy, on this group destined for the altar of his funerary chapel. It represents his anxiety to enclose the ebb and flow of life within the harmonic perfection of form. The broken body of Christ, with its contrary disposition of the limbs, forms a mangled spiral that infuses emotion into the tragic pyramid of tangled bodies and unites it in an inner rhythm.