The pietà is a artistic topic biblical of the “painful Virgin Mary” ( Latin MATER dolorosa in ), holding on its knees the body of the Christ descended from the Croix before its Mise at the tomb, its Résurrection and its Ascension.

History

This Christian topic of suffering and Dead after the Passion of Christ and before the resurrection is expensive with the sensitivity of the years 1350 - 1500 (XIVe and XVe century) very marked by serious periods of epidemic S Pandémie S of Black Death.

It falls under the art of the end of the Moyen-âge in opposition to the topic, not less in favor, of the Madone, the Vierge with the Child .

Sculpture

In province, these sculptures are contained in Calvaire S which represent the cave under the Golgotha where she cried it, as claims it the evangelic Mythographie .

The Pietà of Villeneuve-the-Avignon and the Pietà of Michel-Angel appear among the most known works.

See also: Pietà (Michel-Angel)

Pietà of Michel-Angel:

on May 21st, 1972, it is wildly mutilated with blows of hammer by one unbalanced Hungarian, Lazio Toth. Work of restoration reveals on the left hand of the Virgin the monogram of Michel-Angel remained hidden during nearly 500 years: Mr. drawn on the palm with the lines of the hand. After restoration, Pietà from now on is protected by a protection out of glass by ball.

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