The Pietà in French Late Gothic Sculpture: Regional Variations

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Автор: Forsyth, William H.

Название: The Pietà in French Late Gothic Sculpture: Regional Variations

Издательство: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Год: 1995

Язык: английский

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Формат: 219

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Pietà—"pity" in Italian from the Latin word for "piety"—has come to signify images of the Virgin Mary grieving over the dead body of Christ, an image that was accorded an exalted place in the piety of the Late Gothic period. During that troubled time, the Pietà was, as the author tells us, "like a talisman in a storm," a compelling and uplifting symbol. The impassioned devotion that grew up around the Pietà inspired the wealth of depictions surveyed in this book, which traces the rise, spread, and significance of the image in French sculpture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.