More often associated with sculpture than painting, a Pietà—Italian for compassion—was typically reduced to the Virgin Mary cradling the lifeless body of the crucified Christ. The best-known version, ...

He clarified that the shrine, which featured a sculpture of a distraught ... ordinary [concrete], not marble. It was only a replica of the original Michelangelo ‘Pieta’ in Italy,” he said.

The stairs to the top of St Peter’s Dome were not constructed with tourists in mind. There are 491 steps and in some sections ...

His name was Michelangelo, and the marble became his immortal, "The Pieta." Since then ... Bill Whitaker: Some of this is in ...