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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]
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.
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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Lana Del Rey's 2012 music video Born to Die features the scene of a man holding the corpse of the singer in a Piéta-like pose. St. Vincent (musician)'s song Pietà references her father holding her in a Holiday Inn pool for her baptism "like an inverse-Piéta". This song was released on the St. Vincent (album) deluxe edition.
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