Bridget Retzloff is an assistant professor and visual resources librarian in the Marian Library. Janet McKenzie (American: b. 1956), "Pieta-the Beloved." Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Sacred Art ...

To achieve this goal, he hired Michelangelo to make a memorial for his tomb that would capture a scene that was popular in Northern European art at the time: the tragic moment of the Virgin Mary ...