lomat, Jean Bilhires de Lagraulas, for his tomb in old St. Peter's Rome. Michelangelo almost intended the work to make him famous (which it did), carving the drapery in elaborate detail and giving the surfaces a high polish such as he never felt to be necessary in later works. The problem of making the group look realistic was triumphantly solved by impossibly wide and voluminous, and if she stood up she would be well over 2 meters (166 feet) tall. Michelangelo's Mary is as young as her son. In the manner of the High Renaissance, both figures are physically beautiful and the atmosphere is one of nobility and restrained emotion. It is still one of the most breathtaking sights in St. Peter's.
             While completing the "Pieta" Michelangelo's friends in Florence asked him to come back home; they informed him that there was a huge block of Carrara marble lying in the warehouse off the Cathedral Church. Some other artist, who felt he could not continue with it because the piece of marble was found with a large hole in
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