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Pietà, the Glossary

The Pietà (meaning "pity", "compassion") is a subject in Christian art depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus Christ after his Descent from the Cross.^[1]

73 relations: Albi, Andachtsbilder, Annibale Carracci, Anton Josef Reiss, Basilica of Notre-Dame, Marienthal, Born to Die, Canonical coronation, Cartagena, Spain, Christian art, Cologne, Counter-Reformation, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Cristoforo Solari, Descent from the Cross, Diefflen, Donor portrait, El Greco, Enguerrand Quarton, Florence, Giovanni Bellini, God the Father, Gregorio Fernández, Jesus, John the Apostle, Joseph of Arimathea, Kamp-Bornhofen, Kraków, Lamentation of Christ, Lana Del Rey, Leuven, List of statues of Jesus, Louvre, Luis de Morales, Madrid, Man of Sorrows, Mary Magdalene, Mary, mother of Jesus, Michelangelo, Museo del Prado, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence), Museo di Capodimonte, Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid, National Gallery of Art, Nicodemus, Noël Quillerier, Oratory of Nunziatella, Foligno, Our Lady of Charity, Our Lady of Sorrows, Peter Murray (art historian), Philadelphia Museum of Art, ... Expand index (23 more) »
Descent from the Cross

Albi

Albi (Albi) is a commune in southern France.

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Andachtsbilder

Andachtsbilder (singular Andachtsbild, German for devotional image) is a German term often used in English in art history for Christian devotional images designed as aids for prayer or contemplation.

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Annibale Carracci

Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome.

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Anton Josef Reiss, also Reiß (30 October 1835. In Hans Wolfgang Singer (ed.): Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon. Leben und Werke der berühmtesten bildenden Künstler. Vorbereitet von Hermann Alexander Müller. 3., umgearbeitete und bis auf die neueste Zeit ergänzte Auflage. Vol.

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Basilica of Notre-Dame, Marienthal

The Basilica of Notre-Dame, Marienthal (Basilique Notre-Dame de Marienthal), is a Catholic pilgrimage church dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus.

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Born to Die

Born to Die is the second and debut major-label studio album by American singer-songwriter, and record producer Lana Del Rey.

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Canonical coronation

A canonical coronation (Coronatio Canonica) is a pious institutional act of the pope, duly expressed in a formal decree of a papal bull, in which the pope bestows the pontifical right to impose an ornamental crown, a diadem or an aureole to an image of Christ, Mary or Joseph that is widely venerated in a particular diocese or locality.

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Cartagena, Spain

Cartagena is a Spanish city and a major naval station on the Mediterranean coast, south-eastern Iberia.

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Christian art

Christian art is sacred art which uses subjects, themes, and imagery from Christianity.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.

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Counter-Reformation

The Counter-Reformation, also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to, and as an alternative to, the Protestant Reformations at the time. Pietà and Counter-Reformation are Christian terminology.

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Crisis on Infinite Earths

Crisis on Infinite Earths is a 1985 to 1986 American comic book crossover series published by DC Comics.

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Cristoforo Solari

Church of San Zaccaria Venice - bas-relief on the facade Cristoforo Solari (c. 1460–1527), also known as il Gobbo (the hunchbacked), was an Italian sculptor and architect.

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Descent from the Cross

The Descent from the Cross (Ἀποκαθήλωσις, Apokathelosis), or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels' accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion (John 19).

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Diefflen

Diefflen (pronounced: Dieflen, in the local, Moselle-Franconian dialect Dejfeln) is a district of Dillingen/Saar in the district of Saarlouis (Saarland) and has about 4700 inhabitants.

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Donor portrait

A donor portrait or votive portrait is a portrait in a larger painting or other work showing the person who commissioned and paid for the image, or a member of his, or (much more rarely) her, family.

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El Greco

Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος,; 1 October 1541 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.

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Enguerrand Quarton

Enguerrand Quarton (or Charonton) (1410 – 1466) was a French painter and manuscript illuminator whose few surviving works are among the first masterpieces of a distinctively French style, very different from either Italian or Early Netherlandish painting.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Giovanni Bellini

Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – 29 November 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters.

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God the Father

God the Father is a title given to God in Christianity.

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Gregorio Fernández

Gregorio Fernández (April 1576 – 22 January 1636) was a Spanish Baroque sculptor.

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Jesus

Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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John the Apostle

John the Apostle (Ἰωάννης; Ioannes; Ge'ez: ዮሐንስ), also known as Saint John the Beloved and, in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Saint John the Theologian, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament.

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Joseph of Arimathea

Joseph of Arimathea (Ἰωσὴφ ὁ ἀπὸ Ἀριμαθαίας) is a Biblical figure who assumed responsibility for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion. Pietà and Joseph of Arimathea are Descent from the Cross.

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Kamp-Bornhofen

Kamp-Bornhofen is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

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Kraków

(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.

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Lamentation of Christ

The Lamentation of Christ is a very common subject in Christian art from the High Middle Ages to the Baroque.

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Lana Del Rey

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer and songwriter.

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Leuven

Leuven, also called Louvain (Löwen), is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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List of statues of Jesus

There are many statues of Jesus, including.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.

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Luis de Morales

Luis de Morales (1509 – 9 May 1586) was a Spanish painter active during the Spanish Renaissance in the 16th century.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.

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Man of Sorrows

Man of Sorrows, a biblical term, is paramount among the prefigurations of the Messiah identified by the Bible in the passages of Isaiah 53 (Servant songs) in the Hebrew Bible. Pietà and Man of Sorrows are Christian terminology.

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Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.

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Museo del Prado

The Museo del Prado, officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid.

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Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence)

The Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Museum of the Works of the Cathedral) in Florence, Italy is a museum containing many of the original works of art created for Florence Cathedral, including the adjacent Florence Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile.

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Museo di Capodimonte

Museo di Capodimonte is an art museum located in the Palace of Capodimonte, a grand Bourbon palazzo in Naples, Italy designed by Giovanni Antonio Medrano.

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Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid

The National Museum of Sculpture is an art museum in Valladolid, Spain, devoted to sculpture.

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National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW.

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Nicodemus

Nicodemus (Nikódēmos) is a New Testament figure venerated as a saint in a number of Christian traditions. Pietà and Nicodemus are Descent from the Cross.

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Noël Quillerier

Noël Quillerier (1594 (baptised August 1) - April 3, 1669) was a French painter who also served as a valet de chambre for the king.

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Oratory of Nunziatella, Foligno

The Oratorio della Nunziatella is a 15th-century Renaissance-style oratory in Foligno, region of Umbria, Italy.

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Our Lady of Charity

Our Lady of Charity (Nostræ Dominæ Charitatis) is a celebrated Marian title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in many Catholic countries.

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Our Lady of Sorrows

Our Lady of Sorrows (Beata Maria Virgo Perdolens), Our Lady of Dolours, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows (Mater Dolorosa), and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which Mary, mother of Jesus, is referred to in relation to sorrows in life.

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Peter Murray (art historian)

Peter John Murray (23 April 1920 – 20 April 1992) was a British art historian and the Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck College, London from 1967 to 1980.

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

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Pietà (Annibale Carracci)

Pietà is a c. 1600 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci, the earliest surviving work by him on the subject, which was commissioned by Odoardo Farnese.

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Pietà (Bouguereau)

Pietà is an oil painting of 1876 by the French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau, depicting the Pietà.

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Pietà (El Greco)

Pietà is a 1571-1576 painting by El Greco, produced just after his arrival in Rome and with clear influence from Michelangelo, although the triangular composition is El Greco's own invention.

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Pietà (Gregorio Fernández)

The Pietà or Sexta Angustia (1616 - 1619) is a work of Baroque sculpture by Gregorio Fernández, housed in the National Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid, Spain.

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Pietà (Michelangelo)

The Madonna della Pietà (1498–1499), otherwise known as La Pietà, is a marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the "Sixth Sorrow" of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Michelangelo Buonarroti, now in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.

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Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon

Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon is an oil painting of the mid-15th century that is considered one of the outstanding works of art of the late Middle Ages.

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Pietro Perugino

Pietro Perugino (born Pietro Vannucci or Pietro Vanucci; – 1523), an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance.

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Pity

Pity is a sympathetic sorrow evoked by the suffering of others.

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Replicas of Michelangelo's Pietà

This is a list of replicas of Michelangelo's 1498–1499 statue, Pietà.

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Rococo

Rococo, less commonly Roccoco, also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.

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Rogier van der Weyden

Rogier van der Weyden or Roger de la Pasture (1399 or 140018 June 1464) was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits.

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Saarland Museum

The Saarland Museum is an art museum in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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St. Peter's Basilica

The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican (Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), or simply Saint Peter's Basilica (Basilica Sancti Petri; Basilica di San Pietro), is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy.

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Stabat Mater (art)

Stabat Mater (Latin for "the mother was standing") is a compositional form in the crucifixion of Jesus in art depicting the Virgin Mary under the cross during the crucifixion of Christ alongside John the apostle.

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Stations of the Cross

The Stations of the Cross or the Way of the Cross, also known as the Way of Sorrows or the Via Crucis, are a series of images depicting Jesus Christ on the day of his crucifixion and accompanying prayers. Pietà and Stations of the Cross are Christian terminology.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietà

Also known as La Pietà, The Pieta, Vesperbild.

, Pietà (Annibale Carracci), Pietà (Bouguereau), Pietà (El Greco), Pietà (Gregorio Fernández), Pietà (Michelangelo), Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, Pietro Perugino, Pity, Replicas of Michelangelo's Pietà, Rococo, Rogier van der Weyden, Saarland Museum, Sculpture, St. Peter's Basilica, Stabat Mater (art), Stations of the Cross, Supergirl, Swabia, The Deposition (Michelangelo), Uffizi, Vatican City, Wendelin of Trier, William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Pietà, the Glossary

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Descent from the Cross

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