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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. The statue was commissioned by the Illustrious Penitential Brotherhood of Our Lady of Anguish. It is one of the best known of the five sculptures of the same theme by the artist.
Pieta was produced under Alternative Vision Cinema and Noble Wolf. [3] Adolfo Alix Jr. was the director with co-star Alfred Vargas also a producer. The film was derived from an original story by Alix, [ 5 ] and not a remake of the 1983 film of the same name which had several adaptations. [ 6 ]
The sculpture was purported to be an altarpiece for his funeral chapel within Old Saint Peter's Basilica. This very chapel of Saint Petronilla was later demolished and the image was later moved to its current location, the first chapel on the north side after the entrance of the new basilica, in the 18th century. [ 2 ]
Michelangelo Buonarotti's Pietà in Saint Peter's Basilica, 1498–1499.Crowned by the Pontifical decree of Pope Urban VIII in 1637.. The Pietà (Italian pronunciation:; meaning "pity", "compassion") is a subject in Christian art depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary cradling the mortal body of Jesus Christ after his Descent from the Cross.
This final sculpture revisited the theme of the Virgin Mary mourning over the emaciated body of the dead Christ, which he had first explored in his Pietà of 1499. Like his late series of drawings of the Crucifixion and the sculpture of the Deposition of Christ intended for his own tomb, it was produced at a time when Michelangelo's sense of ...
The Palestrina Pietà is a marble sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, dating from c. 1555 and now in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence.It was formerly attributed to Michelangelo, but now it is mostly considered to have been completed by someone else, such as Niccolò Menghini [1] or Gian Lorenzo Bernini. [2]
Ferrari the name might be familiar, but Ferrari the man is a bit more of a mystery. In Ferrari, the new film by Michael Mann starring Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz, the story of Enzo Ferrari, a ...
Pieta in its location in the side chapel in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. The sculpture is inspired by Michelangelo’s Florentine Pietà, of which it reproduces the composition, with the figures of Nicodemus, Mary Magdalene and Mary found in a zigzagging fashion in a pyramidal arrangement. The pathos of Meštrović's work is very different ...