Focus on Pietà (Michelangelo) and analyze the Other Michelangelo Pietàs.
Several decades later, Michelangelo returned twice to the subject of the Pietà, but neither work was completed. The Florentine Pietà of c. 1547 – 1553 was apparently intended for his own tomb, but abandoned after several years work. It is often called a Deposition, representing a moment slightly earlier in the story. The Rondanini Pietà was begun in 1552, and still very unfinished at his death in 1564; he had been working on it six days before.
Pietà Florentine Pietà Rondanini Pietà Michelangelo Deposition