When Michelangelo was just over twenty years old, durng his first activities in Rome, he sculptured the most famous statue of the world. By means of this solely signed work, the sculptor decided to represent pity ,a rare theme at that time when compared to the deposition from the cross or the weeping for the dead Christ.

The contrast between the ampie draperies of the Virgints clothes and the nude body of Christ is excellent. His right hand, nearly suspended as it has stumbled in his mother's mantle gives the idea of the gravity of death, while the beautifùl and extremely young mother shows a suppressed grief which is already a certainty of resrurrection.

As Jesus Christ was received in his mother's loving arms, he today asks to be received to heal humanity's wounds.