pietà
English
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Etymology
From Italian pietà. Doublet of pietas and piety, and pity.
Noun
pietà (plural pietàs)
- A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.
- 1998, David Adams, Afterword: The Artistic Alchemy of Joseph Beuys, Rudolf Steiner, Thomas Braatz (translator), Bees, page 195,
- Whereas Beuys's early sculptural work was consciously formed within a modernized version of the stylized Romanesque tradition of art, frequently with a Christian content such as crucifixions or pietàs, he gradually was able to free himself from this more traditional approach.
- 2009, Pico Iyer, 5: Making Kindness Stand to Reason, Rajiv Mehrotra (editor), Understanding the Dalai Lama, page 61,
- Ceremonial masks, Hindu deities, and pietàs shine down on you.
- 2011, Caroline van Eck, Stijn Bussels, Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture, page 10,
- It does not show the events it depicts as static, frozen in the eternal present of historia sacra in the way many late medieval crucifixions, pietàs or annunciations do, but as a narrative.
- 1998, David Adams, Afterword: The Artistic Alchemy of Joseph Beuys, Rudolf Steiner, Thomas Braatz (translator), Bees, page 195,
See also
- pietà on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:Pietà on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Italian pietade, pietate, from Latin pietātem, accusative case form of pietās (“piety”, “pity”).
Equivalent to pio (“pious”) + -ietà (“-ity”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pietà f (uncountable)
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Further reading
- Pietà (sentimento) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
- Pietà (arte) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
- Pietà (araldica) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
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