Vesperbild (Pietà)

c. 1515–20 Overall: 89.1 x 78.7 x 32.4 cm (35 1/16 x 31 x 12 3/4 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.294

Depicting the Virgin cradling Christ’s dead body, works like this one were known in German as vesperbilds, owing to their incorporation into the liturgy of the evening prayer (vespers) on Good Friday. The word pietà—from the Latin pietas, meaning "piety" or "compassion"—was al...

Sculpture

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