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What commissioned works of art can tell us about the Great Commission

Way back in the 1490s, a man of many talents was commissioned by the French ambassador in the Holy See to sculpt one of his most well known works, the Pietà. Upon its completion, one of the artist’s contemporaries wrote, “It is certainly a miracle that a formless block of stone could ever have been reduced to a perfection that nature is scarcely able t…