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Artist



Alternative names	Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Description	Italian painter, sculptor, architect, poet and inventor
Date of birth/death	6 March 1475	18 February 1564
Location of birth/death	Caprese Michelangelo	Rome
Work period	from 1487 until 1564 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1487-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1564-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Florence (1487–1494), Bologna (1494–1496), Rome (1496–1501), Florence (1501–1505), Rome (1505–1506), Florence (1506–1508), Rome (1508–1516), Florence (1516–September 1529), Venice (September 1529–November 1529), Florence (November 1529–1532), Rome (1532–1533), Florence (1533), Rome (November 1533), Florence (1533–August 1534), Rome (1534–1564)
Authority file	: Q5592 VIAF : 24585191 ISNI : 0000000121243640 ULAN : 500010654 LCCN : n80152368 NLA : 36432281 WorldCat

Title

Pietà

Description

Italiano: Pietà per Vittoria Colonna

English: Pietà for Vittoria Colonna

Date

circa 1546

Medium

black chalk on paper (Fabriano, identified from watermark, batch manufactured in 1532, with earliest examples dated 1538, in Vienna)

Dimensions

height: 28.9 cm (11.3 in); width: 18.9 cm (7.4 in)

Collection

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

	Native name	Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
	Location	Boston , United States of America
	Coordinates	42° 20′ 17.45″ N, 71° 05′ 56.84″ W
	Established	1903
	Website	www.gardnermuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q49135 VIAF : 127748705 ISNI : 0000000404908454 ULAN : 500305143 LCCN : n79104331 NLA : 36553312 WorldCat

Accession number

1.2.o.16

Place of creation

Rome

Object history

Brunet Collection, Paris; Woodburne Exhibition Catalogue, July 1836, no. 64; Lawrence and Brook Collections, acquired by Francis Turner Palgrave. Palgrave Sale, Christie's, 4 June 1886; acquired by Sir Jon Charles Robinson (1824-1913). Robinson Sale, London, 13 May 1902, no. 206, bought by Messrs. Agnew & Sons for Isabella Stewart Gardner

Inscriptions

watermark: a ladder in a circle with star (Briquet 5924)

References

De Tolnay, Charles (1953). "Michelangelo's Pieta Composition for Vittoria Colonna". Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 12 (2): 44–62. doi:10.2307/3774312

Dillon, Anne. 2012. Michelangelo and the English martyrs. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate. pp. 159-161.

Source/Photographer

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ( image file )

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