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Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
Pietà
Michelangelo carves his Pietà – a remarkable image of the Madonna holding her dead son. He is determined to “make something of such great and rare beauty that no one who saw it would not be moved to pity.”
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Michelangelo battles Raphael for Papal favor as violent religious schisms engulf Europe.
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Fierce rivalry between Michelangelo and Leonardo is heightened by the arrival of Raphael.
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Michelangelo and Leonardo struggle to win work in the brutal world of Renaissance Italy.