Restorers uncover new details in Michelangelo sculpture

This is the first known restoration of the statue (Claudio Giovannini/Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore via AP)

A restoration of one of Michelangelo’s sculptures of the Madonna and Christ has uncovered previously unknown details including the artist’s tool marks that had been hidden under centuries of dust and wax.

Florence’s Museo dell’Opera del Duomo said that the cleaning of the Bandini Pieta, which began last year but was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic, had resumed and that the public was now invited in small groups to come and watch the restorers at work.