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 term pietà (meaning both “pity” and “piety”) is used to describe works of art picturing the dead Christ held by his mother after he has been taken down from the cross.

Michelangelo Made This Haunting Pieta For His Own Tomb. Conservators Have Spent Years Painstakingly Restoring It—See Their Process Here In restoring the sculpture, researchers discovered ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Ruth D. Nelson, and is excerpted from her book "Our Lady of the World's Fair: Bringing Michelangelo's "Pietà" to Queens in 1964." ...

Among many art historians, Enguerrand Quarton’s ‘Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon’ is considered the greatest artwork of 15th-century France.

Likely the artist’s final work, this 16th-century painting is a vast, darkly burnished depiction of Christ’s death that is suffused with grief.

La Pieta statue could soon be removed from St. Adalbert church. ... Even though the church has been closed since 2019, they fear that with the statue gone, this could mean a closure for good.