Example sentences for: pietà

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

  • This collection of nine centuries of paintings includes important works by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Perugino, Raphael’s Transfiguration (his last great work), Leonardo da Vinci’s unfinished St. Jerome, Bellini’s Pietà, and Caravaggio’s Descent from the Cross.

  • 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).

  • 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).

  • Michelangelo wanted the tomb surmounted by the Pietà, now in the cathedral museum (see page 61), but the Florentines almost didn’t get even his body — they had to smuggle it out of Rome.

  • 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.


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