The most disappointing and frustrating thing was to see this Pieta in person at St. Peter's but not be able to truly experience it since it is kept within a bullet- and damage-proofed plastic casing. It is also up against the wall in an alcove. As such, you cannot walk around it and experience the Pieta in full. This was done to prevent further damage. Why do some humans always ruin it for everybody?

@tammy_288

4 ай бұрын

I felt the same disappointment on a recent visit to St. Peters. We couldn’t get close to this masterpiece because of the crowds that gather and stay to take in it’s magnificence. It is elevated though, which gave us the opportunity to get some very good pictures above the crowd. Even the pictures themselves exude a sense of majesty and awe.

@yvonneplant9434

2 ай бұрын

No respect for art. Beliefs that art is evil.

I was "lucky"to have gone there before the protecting glass was put around the sculpture!! I spent hours there just looking and crying at the beauty of it.......

@twinpotracer

20 күн бұрын

ive just returned from rome, stood only for a short while as i was overcome with grief. it truly is a sculture that all people must view. the detail is frightening and amazing

I went on a Vatican tour in 2019 and the amount of art was overwhelming. When my eyes hit this statue I felt a visceral impact completely unlike anything else I experienced on that trip. In that moment I felt the immense sorrow and beauty of the human condition expressed in perfect balance.

@harveywabbit9541

2 ай бұрын

The Pieta is borrowed from Venus holding the wounded Adonis.

This sculptur doe,s not need to be analysed it speaks for itself you can only look at in stunned silence and wonder how is possible that this was created by a man

Very fine analysis and detailed description. It's a near-miracle in my book that it's so lifelike. Few men or women in history had the ability to do this.

La plus belle œuvre d'art au monde

It’s by far the most exquisite, graceful, divine sculpture I’ve ever experienced…Even just for that going to St Peter’s was worth it…

The Pietá is brilliant. Do we appreciate it.? We don’t have the intelligence or history to fully understand it. Thank you for these videos. They tell us so much.

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure

I acquired a piece of marble from the Carrera, Quarry and I carved with it, and what a joy it is to work with it is by far the most beautiful material for a sculptor

@storiesofart

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for the presentation and analysis. I'm just in Awe

I think this sculpture is supposed to be on the floor. So you can see all the beauty. Such a shame that it cannot be seen from up close. Just by looking at pictures of it there is that awe. All those emotions, and coming from a stone. Wow

Thank you so much, Carel, for this wonderful explanation about The Pietá. I think it's the most beautiful sculpture ever. I remember I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw in Saint Peter's Cathedral. I was deeply moved and tears came to my eyes. What I remember from my personal experience coupled with your wonderful explanation really made my day. ❤

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for that. You just made my day!

WOOWWWW!!!! Absolutely fascinating!!!! What an awesome video Carel, thank you so much!!! When I lived in Florence, my art history teacher was quite condescending of all the undocumented stories associated with Michelangelo BUT they sure make for fascinating listening. Yes the attack on the Pieta was very big news in Australia at the time, as you can imagine... I was only a child but I remember the shocking news reports. Long before I ever studied anything at all about art history I had one of the most powerful experiences in my life in seeing the Pieta for the first time ... I gasped out loud and was struck dumb, tears streamed down my face, I was breathless!! In all my travels and studies ever since I don't believe I've ever seen anything to quite match it ... maybe Bernini's Daphne & Appollo? But no as that doesn't contain the pain, the love, the depth of suffering inherent in the human condition projected by the Pieta! I've had many wonderfully moving reactions to art, but I think this one takes the cake.

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for that! I agree, it is quite literally breathtaking

Amazing so much culture lasts for thousands of years ! Wonderful video, beautiful history... thank you.

@yvonneplant9434

2 ай бұрын

In this case you mean hundreds of years not thousands. The Renaissaince was pretty recent historically speaking.

The face of Mary is exquisitely beautiful I think.

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

Yes! it is, isn't it?

Brilliant

How do we dare thing we can improve genius. NEVER change a master of that period.

Great video, thank you!

Thanks. The Pieta video was so very good. You obviously completed a huge amount of research , this together with your natural presentation style makes this video so good. Take care. John Dymond Wales. Nos da.

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

Thankyou, very thorough. Wish I knew this before my visit in 2019.

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

Wish I had been there to tell you all about it😀

Thank you for the interesting stories

Amazing video!

Thank You 🙏🏻

Great video

Absolutely ❣️ Thanks

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome

As always, brillant!!!

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

Thanks again!

The world’s most famous work of art is, undoubtedly, Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”. However, in my opinion, the “Mona Lisa” isn’t the greatest work of art. THIS IS!!!, as long as you can compare a painting to a sculpture!. That someone could create this out of a lump of rock seems to me completely & utterly beyond belief!. No wonder that in his lifetime Michelangelo was known as “il Divino”, the divine one. The Renaissance artist and art critic Giorgio Vasari called the “Pieta” a miracle when he first saw it. How could anybody possibly want to disagree with him?.

@iamlove8108

23 күн бұрын

I agree 100%!

Thanks - very informative, really glad I found your channel 😊

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your help!

Thanks!

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Man, you are The Greatest! Thanks so much for your marvelous presentations. Truly, I hang on every word...

@domofswitch

Жыл бұрын

The 1972 attack - Where did it happen?

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

in St Peters. the same spot it is still in today

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Very interesting!

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

Thanks

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Thank you. I am working as a guide there. I learnt a few things that the Vatican hadn't taught me.

@storiesofart

Ай бұрын

wonderful! I was a guide there many years ago

Bedankt

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

Heel veel dank!

Do you have any photos of the back side of the Pietà ?

The Man Who Attacked The Pieta Was Laszlo Toth

The Man Who Vandalized The Michelangelo's Pieta Was Named Laszlo Toth

Have you ever wondered why nobody today can do a sculpture of such perfection to the human body as claimed Michael Angelo had achieved in his works ? That's because nobody carved or sculpted these marble statues and are in fact real dead flash frozen bodies. . They never explain how they get the marble to change the colour where blood has pooled !!! The marble is brittle yet they carved folded clothing and coloured the eyes. This would be impossible to colour the marble too.

True masters don’t exist anymore. Especially at twenty two. Many live into their eighties and never reach master status. Art in America is treated as a third rate profession. Think of the talent being wasted in American. We are more occupied with iPads, computer, and God help me- sports.

His Majesty Michelangelo Buonarroti

@storiesofart

8 ай бұрын

divine even, according to his contemporaries...

Very interesting!

@storiesofart

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!