# The St Peter's Pietà is delivered around 1499 as a dated signed marble for a French cardinal

Date: 1499

## The fact

Around 1499 [Michelangelo](/people/michelangelo) delivered the St Peter's Pietà for Cardinal Jean de Bilhères. The 1498 contract is the job. Later vandalism is not this marble. Michelangelo's documented role is: He carved the Pietà for Cardinal Jean de Bilhères. The contract of 27 August 1498 is the job; the signed marble is the public object. Later attacks on the work are not 1499.

## Context

The French cardinal's tomb chapel is the first setting. Sharing the commission with him is required. The setting of The St Peter's Pietà is delivered around 1499 as a dated signed marble for a French cardinal is the public file around 1499-08-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Michelangelo, Pietà at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Vatican Museums — Pietà heritage at https://www.museivaticani.va/ (Vatican Museums). Official carrier: Britannica — Michelangelo, Pietà (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Vatican Museums — Pietà heritage (https://www.museivaticani.va/; Vatican Museums).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Michelangelo, Pietà (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving path from The St Peter's Pietà is delivered around 1499 as a dated signed marble for a French cardinal on 1499-08-01. A public funerary marble in St Peter's is a cohesion path of high weight as culture, not as a statute. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

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## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The St Peter's Pietà is delivered around 1499 as a dated signed marble for a French cardinal under 1499-08-01 for Michelangelo. Established: a sourced public record of The St Peter's Pietà is delivered around 1499 as a dated signed marble for a French cardinal under 1499-08-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat 1972 vandalism as 1499. Do not twin with the Florentine Pietà. Mixed effects of The St Peter's Pietà is delivered around 1499 as a dated signed marble for a French cardinal are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of The St Peter's Pietà is delivered around 1499 as a dated signed marble for a French cardinal. Naming Michelangelo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1499-08-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Michelangelo: https://factrail.ai/people/michelangelo

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.museivaticani.va/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mic-pieta-1499