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The paintings dates to the period where Bellini began to outgrow the artistic influence of Andrea Mantegna, his brother-in-law.Via the Sampieri collection in Bologna (catalogue no. 454), it entered Brera in 1811 as a gift from the viceroy of Eugene de Beauharnais's Kingdom of Italy.
The theme of the Pietà, so dear to the sculptor Michelangelo, is addressed in a highly emotional composition, as in the Crucifixion for Colonna. The dead Jesus is cradled between the grieving Mary's legs, who raises her arms to heaven as two angels also raise Christ's arms at right angles.
The Madonna della Pietà colloquially known as La Pietà (Italian: [maˈdɔnna della pjeˈta]; 1498–1499) is a Roman Catholic Italian Carrara marble sculpture of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary at Mount Golgotha, a subject in art known as the Pietà.
Detail of Mary's face. The work was painted for the church of the convent of San Giusto alle mura together with the Agony in the Garden and a Crucifixion.Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari saw them in side altars of the church of San Giovanni Battista alla Calza, after the original location had been destroyed during the Siege of Florence in 1529.
Michelangelo Buonarotti's Pietà in Saint Peter's Basilica, 1498–1499.Crowned by the Pontifical decree of Pope Urban VIII in 1637.. The Pietà (Italian pronunciation:; meaning "pity", "compassion") is a subject in Christian art depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary cradling the mortal body of Jesus Christ after his Descent from the Cross.
The Palestrina Pietà is a marble sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, dating from c. 1555 and now in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence.It was formerly attributed to Michelangelo, but now it is mostly considered to have been completed by someone else, such as Niccolò Menghini [1] or Gian Lorenzo Bernini. [2]
"Senza pietà" (transl. "Mercilessly", lit. "Without mercy") is a 1999 song composed by Claudio Guidetti with lyrics by Alberto Salerno, performed by Italian singer Anna Oxa.
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