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The Deposition (also called the Bandini Pietà or The Lamentation over the Dead Christ) is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo.The sculpture, on which Michelangelo worked between 1547 and 1555, depicts four figures: the dead body of Jesus Christ, newly taken down from the Cross, Nicodemus [1] (or possibly Joseph of Arimathea), Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary.
The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans [2] were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods (first side of the triangle), which were then traded for slaves with rulers of African states ...
One of the piece's most distinctive features is the severe angle of the composition, which, when displayed at eye level, places the theoretical viewer at the feet of the dramatically foreshortened figure. The use of perspective also creates the illusion that the face of Christ follows the viewer depending on the angle from which the piece is ...
Most scholars hold the passage to be authentic and that Tacitus was the author. [46] [47] [48] Classicists observe that in a recent assessment by latinists on the passage, they unanimously deemed the passage authentic and noted that no serious Tacitean scholar believes it to be an interpolation. [8]
Jesus foreshadows his death and this is the last anointing, an expensive one at that, that he will receive. Mark states in Mark 1:1 that his book is "the good news of Jesus the anointed one", [13] the word Christ meaning "anointed". The woman understands Jesus' importance more than do the other people there.
The three Biblical gospels that mention the crown of thorns do not say what happened to it after the crucifixion. The oldest known mention of the crown already being venerated as a relic was made by Paulinus of Nola, writing after 409, [8] who refers to the crown as a relic that was adored by the faithful (Epistle Macarius in Migne, Patrologia Latina, LXI, 407).
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An American national, Bob Cassilly from Saint Louis, Missouri was one of the first people to remove Toth from the Pietà. He recalled the following events: "I leaped up and grabbed the guy by the beard. We both fell into the crowd of screaming Italians. It was something of a scene." [18] Onlookers took many of the pieces of marble that flew off.