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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]
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]
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 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.
The present church was built from 1745-1760 adjacent to the site of an earlier church, and adjacent to the orphanage and hospital, the Ospedale della Pietà. The design was by Giorgio Massari, [1] but its façade remained incomplete, with marble facing rising only a third of the way up the columns. In 1906, it was completed but without the ...
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.
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English: Pieta in bronze resin, quarter size composition of Christ & two angels located in the public foyer of the Church of Sweden, Harcourt St., London Date 1975