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The Pietà by Michelangelo comes from the Cathedral; the artist carried out this sculpture for his funerary chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome between 1548-55 but left it unfinished because of the poor quality of the marble. He gave it to his friend, Francesco Bandini, and the statue was sold to the Medici Grand Dukes by the Bandini heirs in the mid 17th century. It was at first placed in the crypt in San Lorenzo then, after 1721, behind the high altar in the Cathedral and lastly, from 1933, in the left transept, where it remained until 1980.
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