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The Pietà marble statue created by Michelangelo Buonarroti of Mary holding Jesus from the Renaissance. Located in St Peter’s Basilica, Vatican
The Pietà ( Italian pronunciation: [pjeˈta]; meaning "pity", "compassion") is a subject in Christian art depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary cradling the mortal body of Jesus Christ after his Descent from the Cross. It is most often found in sculpture.
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The Madonna della Pietà ( Italian: [pjeˈta]; 1498–1499), informally known as La Pietà, is a marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the "Sixth Sorrow" of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Michelangelo Buonarroti, now in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.
- Marble
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
- 1498–1499
- A French cardinal commissioned the Pietà for his tomb. French cardinal Jean de Billheres, who served the church in Rome, wanted to be remembered long after he had died.
- After more than 200 years, the Pietà was moved to St. Peter’s Basilica. The Late Renaissance church houses the religious monument within the first chapel to the right of its entrance.
- Michelangelo carved the Pietà from a single slab of marble. Specifically, he used Carrara marble, a white and blue stone named for the Italian region where it is mined.
- Pietà is the only work Michelangelo ever signed. If you look closely, the sculptor’s signature can be found across Mary's chest. Sixteenth-century art historian Giorgi Vasari told the tale of how Michelangelo made his mark
The Pieta (Italian for “pity”), which depicts the Virgin Mary holding the body of her son Jesus Christ after his death, has been created in many different forms by various painters and sculpture. Of all the great paintings and sculptures on the Pieta the one by Michelangelo stands out from all the rest.
Although the Pietà remained mostly a Franco-German theme, its supreme representation is that completed by Michelangelo in 1499 and housed in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Influenced by the northern style, Michelangelo draped the figure of Christ across Mary’s lap.
The Peter the Great Statue is a 98-metre-high (322 ft) monument to Peter the Great, located at the western confluence of the Moskva River and the Vodootvodny Canal in central Moscow, Russia. It was designed by the Georgian designer Zurab Tsereteli to commemorate 300 years of the Russian Navy, which Peter the Great established.
