Pietà
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Lunch with the FT: Evgeny Lebedev...me. " What a contrast, he says, to the previous week, when he visited Florence and spent some quality time with Michelangelo's late Pieta. "I was alone, and found myself just looking at it for about 40 minutes. "I was reading Oscar Wilde's... In this article: London, Russia, Mikhail Gorbachev, Roman Abramovich, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Catherine the Great, and Moscow |
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Cincinnati Enquirer | November 06, 2009
Madonna sculpture highlights fundraiser
...annual fundraiser on Nov. 14. Under exclusive license from the Treasures of Saint Peter's Museum in the Vatican, the bust of the Pieta's Madonna was reproduced from the Vatican's original mold of one of Michelangelo's most famous...
In this article: Madonna, Vatican, Virgin Mary, Saint Peter, University of Kentucky, and Masters golf tournament
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Kansas City Star | November 03, 2009
Stormtrooper battle returns to British courts
...alone." </p><p>"On the erroneous approach of the learned judge, arguably the most famous sculpture in the world, Michelangelo's 'Pieta' in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, would also be disqualified" - because its purpose is primarily...
In this article: Stormtrooper, Lucasfilm Ltd, George Lucas, Star Wars, Star Wars, London, U.S., and Galactic Empire
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Times Online | October 16, 2009
The Sacred Made Real exhibition at The National Gallery
...lending their Virgin, but his visit charmed them. He showed the nuns (with his PowerPoint) how perfectly she would sit with Ribera's Pieta, painted after he went to Italy, and a hyper-realistic sculpture of the dead Christ. Although of...
In this article: National Gallery, Francisco Pacheco, Francisco de Zurbaran, St Francis Borgia, Juan Martinez Montanes, Alonso Cano, and Seville
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Wikipedia | October 15, 2009
Palestrina Pieta
The sculpture depicts two figures, one of them the body of the deceased Jesus Christ. Pieta '' (1499) in Rome, ''St. Peter's Basilica Palestrina Pieta (1550) in Florence, ''Accademia Gallery '' Florentine Pieta '' (1557) in Florence,...
In this article: Florence, Jesus Christ, Michelangelo, Castello Sforzesco, Milan, and Rome
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Wikipedia | October 06, 2009
Pieta
...form the 13th of the Stations of the Cross, as well as one of Seven Sorrows of the Virgin. The most famous Pieta is ''Michelangelo's Pieta '' in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. His body is different from most earlier pieta statues, which were...
In this article: Virgin Mary, St. Peter, Sam Taylor-Wood, Michelangelo, God, Robert Downey Jr, The Deposition, and Joseph of Arimathea
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Ft. Worth Star-Telegram | October 01, 2009
Picking Michelangelo over fried butter
...guy who later painted the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, for goodness sake. He painted The Last Judgment and sculpted the Pieta, also at the Vatican today, and David in Florence. "Rare" understates it. Kimbell experts say The...
In this article: Michelangelo, Amon Carter Museum, Museums of modern art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum, Florence, Vatican, and Texas
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The Australian | August 28, 2009
Works of art pressed into another service
...traditional pursuits such as mutton-birding. Lazlo Toth was a Hungarian geologist who wanted to make a point by smashing Michelangelo's Pieta with a hammer in 1972, and perhaps the ceremonial destruction of a pair of 20th-century copies...
In this article: Sotheby's, Tasmania, NSW, Michelangelo's Pieta, Richard Wagner, and Australia
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PR Newswire: Multicultural News | August 25, 2009
Original Bronze of Michelangelo's Pieta Now on Public Display at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in Little Italy
...in the SOHO / Little Italy section of New York City, is proud to announce the arrival of an original bronze cast of Michelangelo's Pieta. The public is invited to attend a special evening with Dr. John T. Spike, world renowned art historian,...
In this article: St. Patrick, Michelangelo, Cathedral, New York City, John T. Spike, Vatican City, and Syracuse University
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washingtonpost.com | August 22, 2009
Framing the Scene of Crimes Against Culture Such as Teacup Attack on 'Mona Lisa'
...several sandwiches short of the full picnic. This certainly applied, for example, to Lazlo Toth, who took a hammer to Michelangelo's "Pieta" on May 21, 1972. As he did, he shouted, "I am Jesus Christ risen from the dead." Subsequently, in...
In this article: Mona Lisa, Rembrandt, Mary Richardson, Michelangelo, Jesus Christ, Leonardo, Munich, Culprit, and Suicide
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New Kerala | July 01, 2009
When Jacko lost art masterpiece bid to Sylvester Stallone
...when the 'Thriller' star paid a visit to his Central Park West duplex to see 19th-century French painter William Bouguereau's masterpiece "Pieta". The singer was said to have been transfixed with the 12-foot-tall painting of Mary holding a...
In this article: Sylvester Stallone, Jacko, Mary, William Bouguereau, New York Post, Punjab, and West Bengal
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The Pietà (1499) by Michelangelo is a marble sculpture in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French cardinal Jean de Billheres, who was a representative in Rome. The statue was made for the cardinal's funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the right as one enters the basilica, in the 18th century.
This famous work of art depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion. The theme is of Northern origin, popular by that time in France but not yet in Italy. Michelangelo's interpretation of the Pietà is unique to the precedents. It is an important work as it balances the Renaissance ideals of classical beauty with naturalism. The statue is one of the most highly finished works by Michelangelo.
- Name:
- Pietà
- Type:
- Marble
- Date:
- 1499
- Location:
- St. Peter's Basilica
- Artist:
- Michelangelo
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