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Pietà

Season 2025 Episode 1 | 3m 20s

Michelangelo carves his Pietà – a remarkable image of the Madonna holding her dead son. He is determined to “make something of such great and rare beauty that no one who saw it would not be moved to pity.”

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Leonardo travels to Milan, determined to make his name at the court of the Duke of Sforza.
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