The Pietà is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus.
Pietà or Pieta may also refer to:
Works of art
- Pietà (Southern German, Cloisters), a German wooden sculpture
- Pietà (Michelangelo), a marble sculpture
- Pietà (Titian), a painting by Titian
- Pietà (Filippo Lippi, Florence), a 1430–1435 painting by Filippo Lippi
- Pietà (Annibale Carracci), a c.1600 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci
- Pietà (Bellini, Milan), a c.1455-1460 tempera on panel painting by Giovanni Bellini
- Pietà (El Greco), a 1571-1576 painting by El Greco
- Pietà (Lotto), a 1545 oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto,
- Pietà (Ribera, 1637), a 1637 painting by Jusepe de Ribera
- Pietà (Flandrin), a c. 1842 painting by Hippolyte Flandrin
- Pietà (Meštrović), Croatian marble statue
Other uses
- Pietà (manga), a 1998 Japanese josei manga
- Pieta (TV series), a Philippine TV series
- Pietà (film), a 2012 South Korean film
- Pieta (1987 film), an Australian television film
- Pietà (book), a 1989 book by George Klein
- Pieta Brown (born 1973), American musician.
Locations
See also
- della Pietà, a surname
- Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage and music school
- Pieta House, a suicide prevention charity in Ireland
- Pieta prayer booklet, a Catholic prayer book approved by Pope Pius IX
- Santa Maria della Pietà, Venice, a church
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