Look up: pieta

1. pieta
   [n] - a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus
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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...
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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.
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4. pieta
   noun a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus
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5. Pieta
   • (n.) A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin Mary or by holy women and angels.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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15. Pieta
    Artwork or sculpture that portrays the Virgin Mary cradling the lifeless body of Christ upon her lap.
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16. pietà
    A picture or sculpture of Mary with her dead son on her lap. Best known is Michelangelo's pietà.
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17. Pietà
    (Michelangelo) :This article is about the earliest and best-known Pietà by Michelangelo. For three related sculptures see the Florentine Pietà or The Deposition (Michelangelo), the Rondanini Pietà, and the Palestrina Pietà. --> The marks o...
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18. Pietà
    The `Pietà` (pl. same; Italian for pity) is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture. As such, it is a particular form of the Lamentation of Christ, a scene from the Passion of Christ found in cycles o...
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19. Pietà
    (Titian) On the left, standing and forming an ideal triangle, is Mary Magdalene. Another small self-portrait, together with his son Orazio, is shown in the base of one of the columns surrounding the niche. The picture is generally considered Titian`s last: an inscription in the lower part of ...
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20. Pietà
    (Perugino)