Pietà

...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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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,...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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,...

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...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...

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...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...

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