Vesperbild (Pietà)

c. 1420 Overall: 94 x 92.7 x 39.4 cm (37 x 36 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.67

The word vesperbild is the German word for pietà, the image of the Virgin Mary cradling her dead son on her lap. The theme has no literary source; it originated in Germany during the early 1300s and was more widespread in central Europe than in Italy. These devotional sculptur...

Sculpture

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