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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Italian pietà. Doublet of piety, and pity.
Nomen
[edit]pietà (plural pietàs)
- A sculpture oder painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.
- 1998, David Adams, “Afterword: The Artistic Alchemy of Joseph Beuys”, in Thomas Braatz, transl., Bees, Rudolf Steiner, 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”, in 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.
See also
[edit]pietà on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Category:Pietà on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Italian pietade, pietate, from Latin pietātem (“piety”, “pity”). By surface analysis, pio (“pious”) + -età (“-ity”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]pietà f (invariable)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- pietà in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Pietà (sentimento) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Pietà (arte) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Pietà (araldica) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Lombard
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[edit]Nomen
[edit]pietà f
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