Nobody Noticed Michelangelo Hid Something In The Palm Of The Virgin Mary

Michelangelo was 24 years old when he carved the most famous sculpture in the Vatican. And hidden inside it are three details that most people who stand in front of it every day have never noticed. A letter hidden in the palm of the Virgin Mary that was only discovered during a restoration in 1972. A signature carved in the middle of the night in anger after he overheard someone credit his masterpiece to a sculptor nobody has ever heard of. And a set of proportions so carefully concealed in the draping of the robes that millions of visitors have stood directly in front of it without realizing that Mary would be nearly seven feet tall if she stood up. In this video we explore the three hidden details inside Michelangelo's Pietà, the contract that told him to produce the most beautiful work of marble in Rome that no living artist could better, and why the only work he ever signed is the one he spent the rest of his life wishing he hadn't. Because this isn't just a sculpture. It is the work of a 24 year old who knew exactly what he had made and snuck back into a chapel at night to make sure history knew it too.