The first thought that the word texture brought to my mind is the fact that it creates ripples of reality which connected me to the work and made me feel for real the fabric of the cloth or the ridges created on the check because of their expressions. Both Mcihanelo’s Pieta and Rottgen Pieta encourages such feelings, but each of them has different kind of pain attached to it in my opinion. While Michelangelo makes it appear as more subtle and calmer, there is greater agony in Rottgen and the pain is more devastating. Perhaps the former artist wanted to put the focus on the detailing more than the aspect of the expression of agony and thus made it appear like Mary has accepted the reality and is sure that justice would be served.