Anyone else just looks at the messages between you and a person you really loved and you instantly feel the pain in the words you wrote when you had to leave them? No just me ᴗ_ᴗ

Question: michelangelo made several creative decisions in the process of making the pieta. one of these was to portray mary as a young woman. how would the sculpture be different if mary had appeared to be in her early 50's, as she probably was when christ was crucified? would this improve or detract from the work? why? use additional internet resources in support of