Michelangelo's Florentine Pietà : The Missing Leg
1968; College Art Association; Volume: 50; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043079.1968.10789177
ISSN1559-6478
Autores Tópico(s)Empathy and Medical Education
ResumoThe Christ in Michelangelo's Florentine Pietà (Fig. 1) is short one leg, and yet the missing limb is rarely missed, so well does the figure in its truncated state seem to work. Some even regard the lack of the other leg as an aesthetic gain.1 It is to those who take this position or who for any reason whatever deplore the attempt to put back what Michelangelo had removed that I offer this consideration: Michelangelo certainly did not conceive a Christ with amputations. He planned a whole, and whatever that whole was meant to embody he lived with for some eight years until the mid-1550's when he destroyed the work. And any thought that Michelangelo entertained for nearly a decade is worth thinking again. Hence we may well ask how the missing member completes Michelangelo's group.
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