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Pietà [2] (German: Vesperbild) a small painted wood sculpture dated to c. 1375–1400, now in the collection of the Cloisters, New York. Very little is known of it, except that is probably of southern German origin. [3] The statuette emphasises the suffering of both the Virgin and Jesus Christ. [3]
Many German and Polish 15th-century examples in wood greatly emphasise Christ's wounds. Although the subject was known in Italy, the name may have been slower to be adopted, and the Florentine diarist Luca Landucci, after describing a painting in an entry for June 1482, added "which is called by some a Pietà". [7]
The Pietà from the Dominican Monastery in Cheb (ca. 1350) is a Gothic wooden pieta sculpture set in Cheb, Czech Republic. An historical and artistically significant sculpture set, The Cheb Pieta is part of the collections of the Gallery of Fine Arts in Cheb (inv. no. P 273).
Oil on wood, 163cm x 219cm. Musée du Louvre. 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. Following its appearance at an exhibition in 1904 its authorship was disputed, though it has since been accepted as the work of Enguerrand Quarton.
The Pietà (Italian: [maˈdɔnna della pjeˈta]; "[Our Lady of] Pity"; 1498–1499) is a Carrara marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the "Sixth Sorrow" of the Virgin Mary by Michelangelo Buonarroti, in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, for which it was made.
Tilman Riemenschneider (c. 1460 – 7 July 1531) was a German woodcarver and sculptor active in Würzburg from 1483. He was one of the most prolific and versatile sculptors of the transition period between the Late Gothic, to which he essentially belonged, and Northern Renaissance art, a master in limewood and stone.
The sculpture was made in 1937 or 1938 and is dedicated to Kollwitz's son Peter [], who was killed in action in World War I.It follows from her work, Mourning Parents [], which she completed between 1914 and 1932.
The Deposition from the Cross is an altarpiece, completed in 1528, depicting the Deposition of Christ by the Italian Renaissance painter Jacopo Pontormo.It is broadly considered to be the artist's surviving masterpiece.