Currently not on view
Pax depicting the Pietà,
16th century
After Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475–1564; born Caprese Michelangelo, Italy; died Rome, Italy
y1952-91
Information
Title
Pax depicting the Pietà
Dates
16th century
Maker
After Michelangelo Buonarroti
Medium
Gilt and silvered bronze
Dimensions
plaque: 13 x 8.7 cm (5 1/8 x 3 7/16 in.)
frame: 17.9 × 12.5 × 8.8 cm (7 1/16 × 4 15/16 × 3 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Caroline G. Mather Fund
Object Number
y1952-91
Place Made
Europe, Italy, Florence, Piero Tozzi
Culture
Type
Subject
Piero Tozzi, Florence. (Plaza Galleries); 1952 museum purchase.
- Charles de Tolney, "Michelangelo's Pieta composition for Vittoria Colonna", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 12, no. 2 (1953): p. 44-62., fig. 17, p. 57 (illus.)
- Program III: "Images of Mary", (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1975)., no. 54; p. 112-113
- Alessia Alberti, Alessandro Rovetta, and Claudio Salsi, D'après Michelangelo (Venezia: Marsilio, 2015)., cat. no. 77, p. 298 (reproduction of original object from Collezione Grimaldi Fava collection); p. 308 (referencing our object as "Variant B")
