VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Forty-one years ago, a crazed Hungarian named Laszlo Toth jumped an altar railing in St. Peter's Basilica and dealt 12 hammer blows to Michelangelo's Pieta, severely damaging ...

A restorer works on one of Michelangelo’s Pieta sculpture in Florence, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. A restoration of one of Michelangelo’s Pieta sculptures has uncovered previously unknown details, ...

Experts are convinced that a recently discovered terracotta statue of the Virgin Mary cradling Jesus after his Crucifixion was the model for Michelangelo's renowned 'Pieta' sculpture in marble, today ...

Florentine artist Michelangelo’s famed Pietà sculpture has for centuries drawn countless visitors, art lovers and Christian pilgrims to St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City, where the monolith ...

From Our Lady of the World’s Fair: Bringing Michelangelo’s Pietà to Queens in 1964, by Ruth D. Nelson, a Three Hills book published by Cornell University Press ...

Its facade a fading ochre, with crumbling plaster revealing the brickwork beneath, the abandoned pavilion at Santa Maria della Pietà in Rome is not a welcoming structure. Perhaps it never was. But ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Ruth D. Nelson, and is excerpted from her book "Our Lady of the World's Fair: Bringing Michelangelo's "Pietà" to Queens in 1964." The 1964–1965 New York World’s ...