Michelangelo sculptures Michelangelo sculptures Bacchus ( 1497) is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet Michelangelo. The statue is somewhat over life-size and depicts Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, in an appropriately inebriated state. Along with the Pietà it is one of only two sculptures than can be attributed with any certainty to the artist's first period in Rome. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bacchus (Michelangelo)"
The Battle of the Centaurs is a relief done by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, around 1492. It is in the Florentine museum Casa Buonarroti. ...more on Wikipedia about "Battle of the Centaurs"
The Cristo della Minerva, also known as Christ the Redemeer or Christ Carrying the Cross, is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, finished in 1521. The work is in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, in Rome, to left to the main altar. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cristo della Minerva"
The Crucifix is a polychrome wood sculpture by High Renaissance master Michelangelo, finished in 1492. ...more on Wikipedia about "Michelangelo's Crucifix"
Michelangelo's David, sculpted from 1501 to 1504, is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture and one of Michelangelo's two greatest works of sculpture, along with the Pietà. David portrays the Biblical King David at the moment that he decides to engage Goliath. The Statue is not so much a portrayal of mere brawn but rather of cleverness, in David's biblical defeat of the giant Goliath. This 5.17 meter (17 ft) marble statue came to symbolise the Florentine Republic. The completed sculpture was unveiled on September 8 1504. ...more on Wikipedia about "Michelangelo's David"
Michelangelo's Moses is marble sculpture executed by Michelangelo Buonarroti 1513- 1515. It depicts the Biblical figure Moses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Michelangelo's Moses"
The Pietà ( 1498– 99) by Michelangelo is a marble sculpture in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the first of a number of works of the same subject by the artist. The statue was commissioned by the French cardinal Jean de Billheres, who was a representative in Rome. The statue was made for the cardinal's funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the right as one enters the basilica, in the 18th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Michelangelo's Pietà"
The Deposition (also called the Florentine Pietà or The Lamentation over the Dead Christ) is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo. The sculpture depicts four figures – the dead body of Jesus Christ, newly taken down from the Cross, Nicodemus, Mary Magdalene and another, incomplete, female figure – rather than Mary in mourning with the body of Christ on her lap, which is more usual for a pietà. The sculpture is housed in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Florence. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Deposition (Michelangelo)"
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