Monday, December 31, 2007

A night out in Rome/10

St. Peter's Basilica lodges one of Michelangelo's masterpieces: Pietà. Nowadays only a copy of the original sculpure is publicly exposed since many damages occurred during years, the most substantial of which on May 21, 1972 (Pentecost Sunday) when a mentally disturbed geologist named Laszlo Toth walked into the chapel and attacked the Virgin with a hammer while shouting "I am Jesus Christ."

 
Posted by Picasa

No comments: