CHICAGO (CBS) --A beloved statue could soon be removed from a Pilsen church. Parishioners protested for months to prevent the removal of the replica of Michelangelo's La Pieta statue from St. Adalbert ...
Covered in a bright blue tarp and tied down with an orange harness, the La Pieta statue was moved out of the historic St. Adalbert Church in Pilsen Tuesday morning and heaved onto a flatbed truck as a ...
A restorer works on one of Michelangelo's Pieta sculpture in Florence, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. A restoration of one of Michelangelo’s Pieta sculptures has uncovered previously unknown details, ...
CHICAGO (CBS) --Neighbors in Pilsen continue their fight to keep a beloved statue in place at a closed Catholic church. Activists have camped out at St. Adalbert Catholic Church for more than 40 days ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Former parishioners gathered at the shuttered Saint Adalbert's Church in Pilsen Tuesday, where crews were working to remove a religious statue. Police were on hand to keep people away ...
A replica of Michelangelo’s famed statue of the grieving Virgin Mary, the Pieta, sits alone and vulnerable in the shuttered remains of St. Adalbert Catholic Church. The statue, as much a piece of ...
FLORENCE, Italy — The restoration of Michelangelo’s famed Pieta dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence has revealed that the single block of marble from which the masterpiece was sculpted was flawed, ...
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