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Source Description
"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, especially in their depiction of Christ's dead body.The Pietà as a subject was developed in northern Europe during the late 14th century. This interpretation belongs to a stylistically related group of sculptures, some of which were exported to Rimini, Italy. Beginning around 1500, the subject was adopted by Italian artists, and it may well have been a sculpture such as this one that inspired Michelangelo's great Pietà in the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
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3621
label
Pietà
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obj
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sculpture
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1
Source metadata
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3621
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sculpture
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normalized
title
Pietà
description
"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, especially in their depiction of Christ's dead body.The Pietà as a subject was developed in northern Europe during the late 14th century. This interpretation belongs to a stylistically related group of sculptures, some of which were exported to Rimini, Italy. Beginning around 1500, the subject was adopted by Italian artists, and it may well have been a sculpture such as this one that inspired Michelangelo's great Pietà in the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1425-1435 (late Medieval)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
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Sculpture
figurines
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1
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1
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import
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cm
width
34.3
height
29.1
depth
13.4
dimensionsRaw
13 1/2 x 11 7/16 x 5 1/4 in. (34.3 x 29.1 x 13.4 cm)
style
late Gothic
Source extras
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German
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alabaster
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5164
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MED
exhibition_ids
2064
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1
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0
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photo
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