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The Pietà (Italian: [maˈdɔnna della pjeˈta]; "[Our Lady of] Pity"; 1498–1499) is a Carrara marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the "Sixth Sorrow" of the Virgin Mary by Michelangelo Buonarroti, in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, for which it was made.
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English: The Pieta is now in the first temple on the right of Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City. Français : ce groupe était destiné au tombeau du Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, abbé de Saint-Denis.
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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]
Pieta of Kampbornhofen, Germany Several Pietà images have received a pontifical decree of coronation , including the Pieta of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, those in the Marienthal Basilica in France, the Franciscan church in Leuven, Belgium , Kamp-Bornhofen , Germany, and Our Lady of Charity in Cartagena, Spain .
The scale of the statuette's diminutive size (132.7 x 69.5 x 36.8 cm) indicates that it might have derived from a 13th-century south German mystical belief that the Virgin, in her grief, imagined Christ as an infant once again as she held his body after the crucifixion, [4] and that his burial shroud is instead his swaddling clothes. [8]