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The Slaves), St. Matthew, and a Pietà — each a fascinating revelation of how Michelangelo released their power from the marble.
The marble that Michelangelo chose for his Moses and Pietà is now hewn, at $3,000 a cubic meter, for replicas at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, tombstones in the Los Angeles Forest Lawn cemetery, and countless homes of oil-rich sheiks.
Among the highlights: two paintings by Giovanni Bellini of the Madonna and Child and a highly personal Pietà; Veronese’s Jesus in the Garden; Tintoretto’s dramatic Discovery of St. Mark’s Body; and an impressive Christ at the Column by Donato Bramante.
In collections that include important works by Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna, Titian, Correggio, and Tintoretto, pride of place — and a room to itself — goes to Michelangelo’s last work, the unfinished Rondanini Pietà (1564).
When the Vatican finally brought the Pietà over to the United States, they didn't put it on a float and trundle it down Main Street; they displayed it in the reverential hush of the World's Fair.