Tell me, what makes this wrong.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

This is Michelangelo’s Pietà.



It’s one of my favourite sculptures. Even apart from the subject matter and the fact that Michelangelo was a devout (one might almost say ‘fanatical’) Catholic, when I look at it, I don’t see Jesus and Mary - I see a grieving mother cradling the body of her brutally murdered son. It’s terribly sad and profoundly moving.

Boru

Idk if it was so rosy as you say. It also seems that Catholicsm restricted Michelangelo and caused him to make some ugly art. Like when he painted or chiseled nude female body, he would basically make a man with tits that looked more like tumors:

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As if he restricted himself because he thought that the realistic (attractive) nude female body had some negative or sinful connotations.

I’m not sure what you mean by ‘as rosy as you say’. I admire this particular sculpture irrespective of the Church or Michelangelo, nothing beyond that.

Boru