C'est mon chef d'oeuvre, pas celui de Gobbo le Milanais.
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00:00 This masterpiece is mine.
00:02 Representation of the Virgin Mary in pain,
00:04 holding the body of Christ after he descended from the cross,
00:07 it took Michelangelo less than a year in 1499 to sculpt the Pietà,
00:12 at the age of 23.
00:14 On this work, a crazy amount of details.
00:16 For example, Michelangelo adds a tooth between the two central incisors of Christ.
00:20 Breaking the symmetry, this "tooth of sin" symbolizes evil,
00:23 and is a way of showing that at his death,
00:25 Christ takes on him all the sins of the world.
00:28 But the most surprising detail is the inscription on the scarf of the Virgin.
00:31 "Michel Angelus Bonarotus Florentinus Facieba"
00:35 And to understand it, a little context.
00:37 Four years after his work, Michelangelo returns to Pietà
00:39 and surprises a conversation between two visitors.
00:42 This sculpture is incredible.
00:43 What a detail, what a detail, such a work.
00:46 It can only be...
00:47 Gobo the Milanese.
00:48 It was not necessary to offend Michelangelo.
00:51 The next night, with a candle,
00:53 he locks himself in the church and spends the night engraving on the only work he will sign,
00:57 Michel Ange Buenarroti did it.