Castello Sforzesco

The colossal size of the Castello Sforzesco makes the city's principal landmark after the Duomo. Now houses two art galleries the Pinacoteca and Museo d'Arte Antica.

The latter gallery has a collection of hodgepodge of sculptures dominated by Michelangelo's unfinished last work, the Pieta' Rondanini.

Pieta' Rondanini by Michelangelo (1564)

Michelangelo worked on his Pieta' until within a few days of his death.

The pathetic image of Mary carrying the lifeless body of her Son, to which, in mystical fervour, Michelangelo has given his own features, does away with all speculations about Beauty. Only Faith, abandonment in God, guarantees Salvation. Thus the Renaissance comes to an end.