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Look up: Pieta

  1. pieta
    [n] - a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. pietà
    A depiction of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of Christ. Examples include the Avignon Pietà (c. 1455; Louvre, Paris), Michelangelo's carved Pietà (1498-99; St Peter's, Rome), and...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  3. Pietà
    Pi·e·tà' (pe*a*tä') noun [ Italian ] (Fine Arts) A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin Mary or by holy women and angels. Mollett.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/86

  4. pieta
    noun a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. Pieta
    • (n.) A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin Mary or by holy women and angels.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. Pietà
    (from the article `Bartolommeo, Fra`) ...frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. In response Bartolommeo`s art took on a greater power of dramatic expression, as in the `Madonna ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/66

  7. Pietà
    (from the article `Bermejo, Bartolomé`) ...of foreshortening, in depiction of details, and in the resolution of difficult problems in perspective. The work that demonstrates most clearly ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/66

  8. Pietà
    (from the article `Botticelli, Sandro`) ...incipient mannerism appears in Botticelli`s late works of the 1480s and in works such as the magnificent Cestello Annunciation (1490) and the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/66

  9. Pietà
    (from the article `Perugino`) ...Among the finest of his works executed during this time are the Vision of St. Bernard, the Madonna and Saints, the Pietà, and the fresco of the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/66

  10. Pietà
    (from the article `Sebastiano del Piombo`) About 1515 Sebastiano came under the influence of Michelangelo and began collaborating with that artist. From drawings and cartoons by Michelangelo ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/66

  11. Pietà
    (from the article `Titian`) ...is miraculous in the Annunciation, in which Gabriel rushes in and an assembly of angels in glory hovers about the Virgin. Titian`s final word and ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/66

  12. Pieta
    (from the article `Western sculpture`) ...exceptions this was in the court ambience only, while Spanish Baroque sculpture is almost entirely religious and of a fundamentally popular ... Many of his best known statues, such as `St. Veronica` (1614) and the `Pietà` (1617), were once part of sculptural groups for...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/66

  13. Pietà
    (from the article `Michelangelo`) The Bacchus led at once to the commission (1498) for the Pietà, now in St. Peter`s Basilica. The name refers not (as is often presumed) to this ... ...in the Bacchic revel by slyly stealing some grapes. In his first major sculptural work the 21-year-old artist succeeded in capturing the spirit of...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/66

  14. Pietà
    as a theme in Christian art, depiction of the Virgin Mary supporting the body of the dead Christ. Some representations of the Pietà include John the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/66

  15. Pieta
    Artwork or sculpture that portrays the Virgin Mary cradling the lifeless body of Christ upon her lap.
    Found on http://www.artisansofthevalley.com/comm_


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