Michelangelo’s Pietà getting new high-security barrier before Jubilee Year
July 24, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: The Vatican is installing a new set of bullet-proof transparent glass panels in front of Michelangelo’s Pietà, located in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
Glass panels have surrounded the Pietà since 1972, when a man vandalized it with a hammer.
The new panels are part of what St. Peter’s Basilica describes as “conserving restoration” work on the Chapel of the Pietà. Until the work is completed in September, pilgrims will be able to see a 1943 copy of sculpture.
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