M Pieta Mother Mary W/ Jesus
This religious statue is
a near exact replica based on Michelangelo's "Pieta",
called as such because it shows the virgin Mary
statue mourning over the dead body of Jesus that
she holds in her arms. Interestingly Pieta is
Italian for "pity".
Pietas have been carved and painted an endless
amount of times but none are as grand as Michelangelo's
Pieta. Nowadays the Virgin Mary Pieta by Michelangelo
is located in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy.
This Pieta statue shows Mary accepting the fate
of her son's death and her grief is expressed
through the delicacy of her extended hand. Jesus
Christ even in death is a paradox for it is as
though he were not dead at all but only sleeping
in the arms the gentle virgin mary mother. In
this particular Mary statue peita the virgin mother
seems to be younger than her son. The gentle features
of Mary's face are filled with spiritual and physical
beauty spoken in the perpetual purity of the lanquage
of religious art. When Michelangelo depicted Christ
and the virgin Mary in a statue he said that "there
was no need to conceal the human behind the divine." |