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Noun
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A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.
* 1998 , David Adams, Afterword: The Artistic Alchemy of Joseph Beuys'', Rudolf Steiner, Thomas Braatz (translator), ''Bees , page 195 ,
- Whereas Beuys's early sculptural work was consciously formed within a modernized version of the stylized Romanesque tradition of art, frequently with a Christian content such as crucifixions or pietàs , he gradually was able to free himself from this more traditional approach.
* 2009 , Pico Iyer, 5: Making Kindness Stand to Reason'', Rajiv Mehrotra (editor), ''Understanding the Dalai Lama , page 61 ,
- Ceremonial masks, Hindu deities, and pietàs shine down on you.
* 2011 , Caroline van Eck, Stijn Bussels, Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture , page 10 ,
- It does not show the events it depicts as static, frozen in the eternal present of historia sacra in the way many late medieval crucifixions, pietàs or annunciations do, but as a narrative.
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