Pietà

[ pee-ey-tah, pyey-tah, pee-ey-tuh, pyey- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, (sometimes lowercase)

a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.

pietà

/ pɪɛˈtɑː /

a sculpture, painting, or drawing of the dead Christ, supported by the Virgin Mary

Pietà

A painting, drawing, or sculpture of Mary, the mother of Jesus , holding the dead body of Jesus . The word means “pity” in Italian.

The most famous of four Pietàs by Michelangelo is a sculpture at Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican .

Origin of Pietà¹

1635–45; < Italian: literally, pity < Latin pietās piety; pity

Origin of Pietà¹

Italian: pity, from Latin pietās piety

Her new single, “Pieta,” is something you can worship and blaspheme at the same time.

I shot Pieta with the equivalent of $100,000… My aim is to take the temperature of the world from time to time.

And up until Elin, the final act has been become borderline pieta.

This suddint bust of centiment on mi part, awoke the sleapin pieta of the trak pedlar, and he at wunst tuk me tu do for swarin.

You didn't read the words in raised letters on the base of the pieta?

She remembered how once she had stood with him in St. Peter's—in front of the "Pieta."

In one chapel the Pieta of Michael Angelo, a marble group, and a masterpiece of his, is placed.

The neighbouring church of St. Pieta, on the contrary, can be called large and grand.

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