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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.
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The Madonna della Pietà colloquially known as La Pietà (Italian: [maˈdɔnna della pjeˈta]; "Our Lady of Piety"; 1498–1499) is a Roman Catholic Italian Carrara marble sculpture of Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary at Mount Golgotha.
Its overall dimensions are 161 x 96 x 60 cm. The statues are deeply hollowed out on the rear side. During the restoration carried out by Mojmír Hamsík in 1972 the non-original polychrome and a number of later additions distorting the overall appearance were removed, [ 1 ] and the stability of the statues was ensured by pinning them.
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Titian had always intended to be buried in the church in Pieve di Cadore where he was baptized. [20] He frequently visited the village, on the edge of Venetian territory in the mountains some 110 km almost due north of the city, although he had left the village for Venice more than 75 years before his death in 1576. [ 21 ]
The church's altarpiece depicts the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Jesus (a depiction known as a pietà), and it was painted by Gioacchino Loretta, a follower of Mattia Preti. The chapel of Our Lady of Loreto contains an altarpiece which depicts Mary with John the Baptist and the Blessed Gerard , painted by Bartolomeo Garagona in 1613.