Tag: Volterra
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18 Paintings, Stories from the Bible, as interpreted by Rosso Fiorentino, Pietro della Vecchia, Luca Giordano, Johann Carl Loth, Francesco Ruschi, Valentin de Boulogne, Vincente Macip, Vincente Macip, Martin Schongauer, Barend van Orley, Daniele da Volterra, Francesco Raibolini, Andrea Meldolla, Pietro Testa and Pieter Brueghel, with footnotes #37
The Pietà 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. When Christ and the Virgin are…
Zaidan Gallery 