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Felix
de Weldon
Pietá
Bronze
Limited Edition
Price:
US$27,500
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Felix
de Weldon's Pietá bridges this masterpiece from the
past to present and gives us both pride in our inheritance
and shows us what the best human minds have created. He deemed
Michelangelo's Pietá as the definition of realism and
idealism.
Felix
de Weldon, the most prolific monumental sculptor in history,
has recreated here the most famous work of the Renaissance,
the Pietá.
Felix
de Weldon's Pieta is one of the most important works which
graces St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, DC. The
Carrara marbleMr. de Weldon used was taken from the same quarry
Michelangelo used for the Pieta in St. Peter's Basilica. Felix
de Weldon gave his recreation of Michelangelo's Pieta to St.
Matthew's Cathedral in 1972 in memory of his parents.
The
funeral mass for President John F. Kennedy was held at St.
Matthew's Cathedral in November 25, 1963.
In
1972 the Pietá by Felix de Weldon was unveiled
at.
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washinton, DC.
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