Pietà

In this group, completed in 1499, Michelangelo, in his striving towards an absolute and perfect fusion of formal Beauty and moral Truth, combines in the most classical finish different elements of figurative culture: Flemish naturalistic and psychological illusionism, the composed grace of Florentine rhythmic classicism, and the swelling tangle of drapery in the manner of Verrocchio and the Ferrarese.