Pietà

ca. 1425-1435 (late Medieval)

29.1 cm 34.3 cm 13.4 cm

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"Pietà" is the name given to the image of Christ's mother sorrowing over her dead son. The ultimate model of human piety, she provided a perfect image for private meditation. Northern artists often conveyed the extreme emotion of the subject through angular, rigid forms, esp...

Sculpture

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3621
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sculpture
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provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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1
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late Gothic
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