In no particular order of difficulty, here is a list of the complications facing the young Michelangelo as he approached a block of newly quarried Carrara marble in the late summer of l499, and prepared to embark upon the carving of his first pieta.

• 这就是年轻的米开朗基罗在1499年夏末走近一块新采的卡拉拉大理石准备开始雕刻第一座《圣母怜子像》时面对的一系列难题。