One can't help but be overwhelmed by the perfection of Michelangelo's Pieta, marble as fluid as fabric, as realistic as flesh and as expressive as heartfelt sorrow.
Jesus appears to slip from her lap as though onto the surface before you, intentionally. The Pieta was intended to be an altar piece, so the symbolism of slipping into the altar is a direct reference to the Eucharist.
Michelangelo used the same expression on the Pieta Mary as he had in the Annunciation Mary, which is to say yes, or to be resigned to God's will.
The Pieta is now out of the public's reach behind glass after an incident many years ago when a derranged person knocked off her left hand with a hammer. I recall this from my childhood.
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