Marvelous marmoreus sculpture in Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze. The work had a complex and different critical history from all the other sculptures preserved in the same place, having arrived in its present location only in 1939, from the chapel of Santa Rosalia in the Barberrini palace in Palestrina. The silence of the sixteenth-century sources on it and the characteristics of its modeling are the main elements (but not the only ones) on which the doubts about Buonarroti’s autography are based, a topic that still remains open among scholars all over the world.
The first evidence of the existence of this imposing sculptural group and of its presence in Palestrina is found in a document dated 1670 kept in the Vatican Apostolic Library; after that date the work is cited salutary. The possible attribution to Bernini is supported by his well-known passion for Michelangelo and in particular for the Pietà Bandini, and in this case it would constitute a tribute.
Obtained with photogrammetry with an iphone 6s.
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