Comments on: Feel Art Again: “Pietà”

By: Nancy Kremeier

Nancy Kremeier — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:03:48 +0000

My 17-year old son passed away just a few weeks ago. I immediately wanted a memorial tattoo in his honor and chose Michelangelo’s Pieta to memorialize my sorrow and his extraordianry, but short, life. I feel Mary’s sorrow and longing for her Boy, and feel the weight of his liveless body daily.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:38:51 +0000

winged victory is a great idea. I’ve never seen it, but it is such an amazing piece.

By: Melodye

Melodye — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:44:57 +0000

This is my favorite sculpture. A few Christmases ago, my parents gave me a minature of this sculpture, sculpted from Carrara marble. It’s one of my favorite Christmas gifts. :)

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:29:15 +0000

It would be nice if the bulletproof glass the Pieta lies behind wasn’t so dingy.

The way he shows the weight of the dead body is just amazing.

By: jenni

jenni — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:52:46 +0000

I think another reason Mary was so large was because her lap had to be impossibly huge to hold the figure of Jesus. It may have been partly from necessity, although the metaphor fits in nicely as well.

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:39:09 +0000

I can’t believe he created that when he was only 23. I’m 23.

Also, when I was in elementary school (how well this reveals why I am the way I am), parents would come and read stories to our class sometimes. My mom would read sections out of _The Agony and the Ecstasy_.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:31:35 +0000

I’ve seen it in person, and what’s most remarkable is how Mike captured a mother’s pure sorrow on Mary’s face.

By: Betsy

Betsy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:45:01 +0000

I, too, was lucky enough to see this in person last year, and it is indeed even more beautiful in person. (Good choice for your bucket list, c.a. Marks.) My traveling companions and I were all amateur art admirers at best, but they determined that I was a “sculpture person.” It amazes me, in this as well as many other works, how “soft” stone can (appear to) be.

Suggestion for a future “Feel Art Again” sculpture – Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre – stunning.

By: Magyarlany

Magyarlany — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:37:31 +0000

Figures, a Hungarian attacked it.
I hang my head in shame.

By: Codius

Codius — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:23:00 +0000

efactorial,

Mary is larger than Christ, because it represents the idea that a mother will always see her child as just that, a child. After Christ was removed from the cross, Mary held as she would have 30 years prior. She still views him as her baby boy.

At least, that’s my art professor told me in college.