Michelangelo's Final Work Didn't Achieve Greatness

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Michelangelo's Final Work Didn't Achieve Greatness

Michelangelo's final work was called Rondanini Pietà, on which he worked for ten years. Giorgio Vasari, a contemporary of Michelangelo, wrote that Michelangelo "ended up breaking the block [for this sculpture], probably because [it] was full of impurities and so hard that sparks ...

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