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Michelangelo Buonarroti

St. Peter's Basilica

 
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This is one of the first masterpieces of the famed artist from Tuscany, only twenty at the time, and one of the most famed works of all time. It was commissioned by the french Cardinal and ambassador for Charles VIII, Jean de Bilhères, for his entombment in the Church of Santa Petronilla. In 1517 it was brought to Saint Peter's and, after being moved several times, it has been in the first chapel to the right since 1779. It is signed on the band running diagonally across the body of the Virgin.

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