In which museum is Michelangelo's unfinished sculpture 'The Deposition' (Florentine Pietà) located?

Michelangelo’s unfinished sculpture The Deposition, also called the Florentine Pietà, is located in Florence’s Museo dell’Opera del Duomo.

Michelangelo worked on the group between about 1547 and 1555, late in his life, intending it for his own tomb. The sculpture shows the dead Christ being lowered from the cross, supported by the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Nicodemus. The hooded Nicodemus is widely understood as a self-portrait of Michelangelo, making the work unusually autobiographical.

The marble group was never completed. Michelangelo reportedly attacked it with a hammer, possibly because of frustrations with the stone, the composition, or the sculpture’s intended destination. Tiberio Calcagni later repaired and worked on parts of the group, while other areas remain rough and visibly unfinished.

The work is sometimes confused with Michelangelo’s earlier Pietà in St Peter’s Basilica or the Rondanini Pietà in Milan. The Florentine Pietà belongs specifically to the Duomo museum complex, where it is also known as the Bandini Pietà. Its unfinished surfaces offer a vivid view of Michelangelo’s carving process.