Pietà

Pietà (i. e. piety) is the name given to a picture, the subject of which is the dead Christ in the embrace of his sorrowing mother, accompanied by sorrowing women and angels. That sculptured by Michael Angelo, in St. Peter's at Rome, representing the Virgin at the foot of the cross, and the dead Christ in her lap.

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Pieter de Hooch, Pietermaritzburg, Pietists, Pietra Dura, Pietro Annigoni, Pietro Aretino