pietà

• pieta

From Italian pietà. Doublet of piety, and pity.

pietà (plural pietàs)

1. A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.
   • 1998, David Adams, “Afterword: The Artistic Alchemy of Joseph Beuys”, in Thomas Braatz, transl., Bees, Rudolf Steiner, page 195:

     Whereas Beuys's early sculptural work was consciously formed within a modernized version of the stylized Romanesque tradition of art, frequently with a Christian content such as crucifixions or pietàs, he gradually was able to free himself from this more traditional approach.

   • 2009, Pico Iyer, “5: Making Kindness Stand to Reason”, in Rajiv Mehrotra, editor, Understanding the Dalai Lama, page 61:

     Ceremonial masks, Hindu deities, and pietàs shine down on you.

   • 2011, Caroline van Eck, Stijn Bussels, Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture, page 10:

     It does not show the events it depicts as static, frozen in the eternal present of historia sacra in the way many late medieval crucifixions, pietàs or annunciations do, but as a narrative.

• pietà on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Pietà on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Tapei, Piteå

• pieta, pietade, pietate

Inherited from Old Italian pietade, pietate, from Latin pietātem (“piety”, “pity”). By surface analysis, pio (“pious”) +‎ -età (“-ity”).

• IPA^(key): /pjeˈta/^*
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: pie‧tà

pietà f (invariable)

1. pity, compassion, godliness
2. piety
3. (art) pietà

• pietismo
• pietoso

• pietista

• pietà in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• Pietà (sentimento) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• Pietà (arte) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• Pietà (araldica) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• (Milanese) IPA^(key): /pjeˈta/

pietà f

1. pity
2. piety