"Are Mario and Princess Peach the new symbols for selfless love and innocence? For Polish artist Kordian Lewandowski they just might be in his remix of Michelangelo’s Pieta. Made not of marble but of polystyrene foam, Lewandowski has used the Nintendo characters to reinterpret the famous work for a contemporary audience, and it’s nerd-approved. The piece, titled Game Over (guess Mario couldn't find a green mushroom in time), features two of the videogame’s central characters in the same pose as Michelangelo’s Mary holding the body of Jesus, and was made with the grace and delicacy of a chainsaw and later refined with smaller tools. While it may never be seriously compared with Michelangelo’s masterpiece, it will certainly become part of the Gamer’s Canon, and, being made of Styrofoam, may even last longer than the original."
INCREDIBLE. Again, of course, Luigi's short-changed.
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