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Pietà

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A pietà (meaning "pity", "compassion") is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture. [1]

54 relations: Andachtsbilder, Bronzino, Christian art, Church of St. Panteleimon (Gorno Nerezi), Cologne, Cristoforo Solari, Deposition of Christ (Bronzino), Descent from the Cross, El Greco, Enguerrand Quarton, Florence, God the Father, Gorno Nerezi, Gregorio Fernández, Jesus, John the Apostle, Joseph of Arimathea, Kraków, Lamentation of Christ, Life of Christ in art, Life of Jesus in the New Testament, Louvre, Luis de Morales, Madrid, Mary Magdalene, Mary, mother of Jesus, Michelangelo, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, Museo del Prado, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence), Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid, New Testament, Nicodemus, Noël Quillerier, Oratorio della Nunziatella, Our Lady of Sorrows, Passion of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pietà (Gregorio Fernández), Pietà (Michelangelo), Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, Pietro Perugino, Replicas of Michelangelo's Pietà, Rococo, Rogier van der Weyden, Sculpture, St. Peter's Basilica, Stabat Mater (art), Stations of the Cross, Swabia, ..., The Deposition (Michelangelo), Uffizi, Vatican City, William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Expand index (4 more) »

Andachtsbilder

Andachtsbilder (singular Andachtsbild, German for devotional image) is a German term often used in English in art history for Christian devotional images designed as aids for prayer or contemplation.

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Bronzino

Agnolo di Cosimo (November 17, 1503November 23, 1572), usually known as Bronzino ("Il Bronzino" in Italian), or Agnolo Bronzino, was an Italian Mannerist painter, born in Florence.

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Christian art

Christian art is sacred art which uses themes and imagery from Christianity.

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Church of St. Panteleimon (Gorno Nerezi)

The Church of St.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln,, Kölle) is the largest city in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth most populated city in Germany (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich).

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Cristoforo Solari

Church of San Zaccaria Venice - bas-relief on the facade Cristoforo Solari (c. 1460–1527), also known as il Gobbo (the hunchbacked), was an Italian sculptor and architect.

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Deposition of Christ (Bronzino)

The Deposition of Christ is a painting by the Italian artist Agnolo di Cosimo, known as Bronzino, completed in 1545.

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Descent from the Cross

The Descent from the Cross (Ἀποκαθήλωσις, Apokathelosis), or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels' accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion.

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El Greco

Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος; October 1541 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.

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Enguerrand Quarton

Enguerrand Quarton (or Charonton) (1410 – 1466) was a French painter and manuscript illuminator whose few surviving works are among the first masterpieces of a distinctively French style, very different from either Italian or Early Netherlandish painting.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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God the Father

God the Father is a title given to God in various religions, most prominently in Christianity.

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Gorno Nerezi

Gorno Nerezi (Nerez i Epërm) is a village in the municipality of Karpoš, Republic of Macedonia.

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Gregorio Fernández

Gregorio Fernández (April 1576 – 22 January 1636) was a Spanish Baroque sculptor.

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Jesus

Jesus, also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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John the Apostle

John the Apostle (ܝܘܚܢܢ ܫܠܝܚܐ; יוחנן בן זבדי; Koine Greek: Ιωάννης; ⲓⲱⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ or ⲓⲱ̅ⲁ; Latin: Ioannes) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament, which refers to him as Ἰωάννης.

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Joseph of Arimathea

Joseph of Arimathea was, according to all four canonical Christian Gospels, the man who assumed responsibility for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion.

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Kraków

Kraków, also spelled Cracow or Krakow, is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.

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Lamentation of Christ

The Lamentation of Christ is a very common subject in Christian art from the High Middle Ages to the Baroque.

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Life of Christ in art

The Life of Christ as a narrative cycle in Christian art comprises a number of different subjects narrating the events from the life of Jesus on earth.

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Life of Jesus in the New Testament

The four canonical gospels of the New Testament are the primary sources of information for the narrative of the life of Jesus.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is the world's largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris, France.

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Luis de Morales

Luis de Morales (1512 – 9 May 1586) was a Spanish painter born in Badajoz, Extremadura.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole.

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Mary Magdalene

Saint Mary Magdalene, sometimes called simply the Magdalene, was a Jewish woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion, burial, and resurrection.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

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Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon

The musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie (Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology) in the French city of Besançon is the oldest public museum in France.

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Museo del Prado

The Prado Museum is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid.

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Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence)

The Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Museum of the Works of the Cathedral) in Florence, Italy is a museum containing many of the original works of art created for the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, the cathedral (Duomo) of Florence.

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Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid

The Museo Nacional de San Gregorio (National Museum of Sculpture) is a museum in Valladolid, Spain, belonging to the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

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New Testament

The New Testament (Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, trans. Hē Kainḕ Diathḗkē; Novum Testamentum) is the second part of the Christian biblical canon, the first part being the Old Testament, based on the Hebrew Bible.

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Nicodemus

Nicodemus (Νικόδημος) was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin mentioned in three places in the Gospel of John.

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Noël Quillerier

Noël Quillerier (1594 (baptised August 1) - April 3, 1669) was a French painter who also served as a valet de chambre for the king.

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Oratorio della Nunziatella

The Oratorio della Nunziatella is a 15th-century Renaissance-style oratory in Foligno, Italy.

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Our Lady of Sorrows

Our Lady of Sorrows (Beata Maria Virgo Perdolens), Our Lady of Dolours, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows (Latin: Mater Dolorosa), and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which the Virgin Mary is referred to in relation to sorrows in her life.

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Passion of Jesus

In Christianity, the Passion (from Late Latin: passionem "suffering, enduring") is the short final period in the life of Jesus covering his entrance visit to Jerusalem and leading to his crucifixion on Mount Calvary, defining the climactic event central to Christian doctrine of salvation history.

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

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Pietà (Gregorio Fernández)

The Pietà or Sexta Angustia (1616 - 1619) is a work of Baroque sculpture by Gregorio Fernández, housed in the National Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid, Spain.

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Pietà (Michelangelo)

The Pieta (The Pity; 1498–1499) is a work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.

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Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon

Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon is an oil painting of the mid-15th century that is considered one of the outstanding works of art of the late Middle Ages.

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Pietro Perugino

Pietro Perugino (c. 1446/1452 – 1523), born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance.

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Replicas of Michelangelo's Pietà

This is a list of replicas of Michelangelo's Pietà.

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Rococo

Rococo, less commonly roccoco, or "Late Baroque", was an exuberantly decorative 18th-century European style which was the final expression of the baroque movement.

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Rogier van der Weyden

Rogier van der Weyden or Roger de la Pasture (1399 or 140018 June 1464) was an Early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces and commissioned single and diptych portraits.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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St. Peter's Basilica

The Papal Basilica of St.

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Stabat Mater (art)

Stabat Mater (Latin for "the mother was standing") is a feature in the Crucifixion of Jesus in art in which the Virgin Mary is depicted under the cross during the Crucifixion of Christ.

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Stations of the Cross

The Stations of the Cross or the Way of the Cross, also known as the Way of Sorrows or the Via Crucis, refers to a series of images depicting Jesus Christ on the day of his crucifixion and accompanying prayers.

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Swabia

Swabia (Schwaben, colloquially Schwabenland or Ländle; in English also archaic Suabia or Svebia) is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany.

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The Deposition (Michelangelo)

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.

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Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery (italic) is a prominent art museum located adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy.

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Vatican City

Vatican City (Città del Vaticano; Civitas Vaticana), officially the Vatican City State or the State of Vatican City (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is an independent state located within the city of Rome.

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietà

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