Quest for Joy-7. Pieta

Michaelangelo, Pieta

I saw an absolutely flawless piece of art today, Michaelangelo’s Pieta (Italian for Pity) now behind plexiglass at St Peter’s.


His contemporary, Vasari, wrote of it, “It is certainly a miracle that a formless block of stone could ever have been reduced to a perfection that nature is scarcely able to create in the flesh.”


The rest of St. Peter’s was overwhelming–lots of eye-candy, beautiful marble everywhere, lots of ornate little side chapels, all too much in keeping with the central shrine of Catholicism, and the second largest church in the world (in area).


I enjoyed my exhausting wander through it, of course, but it didn’t have the same sense of awe and holiness for me, as Gothic cathedrals do.

Believe it or not, this is a mosaic. What a labour of love!!

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