Small Michelangelo's Pieta Mother Mary with Jesus Statue

One can't help but gaze in admiration at the finely polished features of Michelangelo's Pieta sculpture masterpiece as it evokes a sense of pure beauty in its perfection without realizing how unique it actually was at the time of its unveiling and how far it departed from the conventional conception of the blessed Mary. Michelangelo's Pieta was a sculpture that broke new ground on the always expanding cultural front of art. Michelangelo's once said, "If life is pleasing to us, death, which was made by the hands of the same creator, should not be displeasing to us".