Just inside St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, to the right, is Michelangelo's arresting sculpture, the Pietà. Layers upon layers present themselves for pondering. The wonder, initially, is that a piece of ...

The Madonna and Child — a young Mary holding her son, Jesus, as an infant — is the prevailing depiction of Mary throughout cultures and time. The Pietà, Italian for “pity” or “compassion,” depicts ...

The theme of Christ’s death followed Michelangelo through his whole life. Beauty and goodness, and grief and pity, alive in the dead marble,” began a poem by one spectator awestruck by Michelangelo’s ...

The article examines a painting of the Pietà known around 1865 by Hermann Grimm as an original work of Michelangelo Buonarroti and then disappearing from scientific literature. In the panel the author ...

Nestled in a corner of Monument Square, between the rectory of Holy Family Parish and the war memorial, sits an almost life-sized reproduction of Michelangelo’s Pieta of St. Peter’s Basilica in Italy, ...

FLORENCE, Italy, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The restoration of Michelangelo's famed Pieta dell'Opera del Duomo in Florence has revealed that the single block of marble from which the masterpiece was sculpted ...

'Pieta,' starring Cho Min-soo and Lee Jung-jin, depicts the relationship between a young loan shark and a mysterious woman claiming to be his mother. 'Pieta', meaning 'pity' in Italian, refers to an ...