This small sculpture is a disputed work that depicts Christ''''s descent from the Cross. A frame of the same age makes this colorful sculpture more precious and remarkable. The painter is the disputed creator is greatest artist in the Italian Renaissance��Michelangelo Buonarroti.
  Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in Florence. He came to Rome alone when he  was just over twenty years old, and finished his first masterpiece < The Pieta >. This masterpiece has a unique and stable structure, a solid and powerful mold-making, a profound description of feelings, which made this young artist a famous master when he returned to his home town in 1501 and obtained the honor of creating the sculpture for Florence.
  This work before us is one of the most familiar sculptural themes in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It represents the moment that Christ''''s family, friends and supporters take him from the cross, just after he has died. He will then be placed in the tomb. Michelangelo, a man full of religious sentiment, represented time after time this kind of scene in his art. Though it''''s just a small sculpture, we can all see why it is considered one of Michelangelo''''s works through the powerful composition and the intense movement.