Museo dell'Opera del'Duomo - A Michelangelo Tour (sitios de interés)
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One of Michelangelo's last sculptures was this Pietà, possibly planned to decorate his tomb.
According to Vasari, the artist's wish was to be buried in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, at the feet of the Pietà on which he had worked between 1547 and 1553. Two years later he smashed it, because one leg had broken off and because the block of marble was defective.
The sculpture is now in the Cathedral Museum.
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