The Ragusa Pietà: History and restoration

This book tells the story of a painting that was recognized as carrying the signature of Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1868 by his greatest expert of the 19th century, Hermann Grimm. After being exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 1886, attributed to the same painter, the painting then disappeared without trace. In 2010, the panel was brought to the attention of art historians once again, after a careful document research traced its history, from the Italian Renaissance worksho...