Example sentences for: pietà

How can you use “pietà” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When the Vatican finally brought the Pietà over to the United States, they didn't put it on a float and trundle it down Main Street; they displayed it in the reverential hush of the World's Fair.

  • The dead Jesus in his mother’s arms emphasizes the agony rather than the pathos portrayed by the Pietà in St. Peter’s in Rome (see page 61).

  • Originals of Donatello’s sculpture are kept in the cathedral’s own newly renovated museum, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo (Piazza del Duomo, 9) as well as Michelangelo’s unfinished Pietà.

  • In collections that include important works by Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna, Titian, Correggio, and Tintoretto, pride of place — and a room to itself — goes to Michelangelo’s last work, the unfinished Rondanini Pietà (1564).

  • Titian’s Pietà, a vibrant last work completed by pupil Palma il Giovane, was originally intended for his tomb in the Frari church (see page 131); Veronese’s Feast in the House of Levi was meant to be the Last Supper, until the Holy Inquisition complained about its “buffoons, drunkards, dwarfs, Germans, and similar vulgarities”; Tintoretto gives full play to his dark sense of drama in the Miracle of St. Mark.


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