During the Renaissance, creating a figure of any type, whether it be a sculpture or painting, making the figures look alive and real was what any artist would go for. In his sculpture the Pieta, Michelangelo transforms the stone to an actual human figure. “Michelangelo’s core figures are inviolable (due to the change material from wood to marble) and resistant to the physical transformations the Flemish works have undergone due to changing ritual and devotional agendas across time” . Zeigler feels that the use of marble by itself, the use of naturalistic proportions, and the use of perspective, in this case three-dimensional art is the reason this piece is the beginning of Michelangelo’s long career to come as well as the greatest pieces
