Italy's artistic heritage includes architecture, painting, and sculpture, with statues adorning cities and towns in diverse styles, materials, and eras.
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It was made of white Carrara marble between 1501 and 1504. It’s really huge: 5m high and 5 tons of weight!
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It represents the Virgin Mary holding Christ’s body after his death, which was a common subject in funerary art during the Renaissance.
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This statue of the Virgin Mary has always been protecting the city from above and no new building nor skyscraper can be higher than that (108m)!
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