Michelangelo's marble statue "Madonna and Child" is the only one of his works to leave Italy during his lifetime. A Flemish merchant imported it and today it is sealed within a thick glass case deep in shadows of Bruges' Church of Our Lady. I used my telephoto lens at 388mm to zoom through that glass and make the figures pop out of the darkness, just as Michelangelo extracted them out the block of marble with his chisel. The figures seem ready to come to life. By underexposing and thereby abstracting this remarkable work of art, I show less of it and say more about it. This black and white conversion helps as well – when the marble color vanishes, they appear to look more like people and less like stone. And that was Michelangelo’s greatest gift – to make stone seem human.