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Pieta of Kampbornhofen, Germany. Several Pietà images have received a pontifical decree of coronation, including the Pieta of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, those in the Marienthal Basilica in France, the Franciscan church in Leuven, Belgium, Kamp-Bornhofen, Germany, and Our Lady of Charity in Cartagena, Spain.
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.
English: The Pieta is now in the first temple on the right of Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City. Français : ce groupe était destiné au tombeau du Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, abbé de Saint-Denis.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
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Enguerrand Quarton.Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.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.
The theme of the Pietà, so dear to the sculptor Michelangelo, is addressed in a highly emotional composition, as in the Crucifixion for Colonna. The dead Jesus is cradled between the grieving Mary's legs, who raises her arms to heaven as two angels also raise Christ's arms at right angles.
Images of the Virgin cradling the body of her son in her arms and lap are known as "Pietà", and were a popular devotional subject in the later Middle Ages from the 13th century, especially in nunneries, possibly under Byzantine influence, [7] as a form of the Lamentation of Christ.