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pieta::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of pieta
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In a nearby pieta, Mary's mouth is screwed up as if she's holding back tears.
From the bloomberg.com
The central event in each is a military pieta, the death on the field of an American general, though the compositions are swirls of confusion and activity.
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- A representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus
- The Pietu00E0 (Italian pronunciation:u00A0) is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture. As such, it is a particular form of the Lamentation of Christ, a scene from the Passion of Christ found in cycles of the Life of Christ...
- Pietu00E0 (u30D4u30A8u30BF?) is a Japanese josei yuri manga by Nanae Haruno. It was originally serialized in the manga magazine Young You, published by Shueisha. The chapters were collected into two tanku014Dbon volumes, the first released on April 19, 2000 and the second on May 19, 2000. The second volume also contains a sequel short story, "A Week at the Beach," showing the main characters at a later time.
- Pieta was a television primetime series that aired on ABS-CBN from October 27, 2008 to May 1, 2009.
- From the Latin words for pity and piety, an artistic representation of Mary grieving over the dead Christ. No corresponding scene exists with the scriptural accounts of the Passion and the image was entirely invented, creating a tragic counterbalance to the image of the Madonna and Child.
- This is Italian for 'lamentation' and is a term used to describe the scene immediately following the descent from the cross, in which mourners surround the body of Christ, stretched out on the ground.
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