Figure of the Pietà

c. 1761 height: 38.5 cm (15 3/16 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.75

The distinctively Roman Catholic subject of Mary cradling her son, the crucified Christ, suggests this figure was probably made for one of the aristocratic English families forced to practice their Catholicism in secret during the mid-1700s. Because of the laws banning Catholi...

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