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Bible Encyclopedias
Pietà
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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E . piety), the name given to a picture, the subject of which is the dead Christ in the embrace of his sorrowing mother, accompanied by sorrowing women and angels; that sculptured by Michael Angelo, in St. Peter's at Rome, representing the Virgin at the foot of the cross, and the dead Christ in her lap.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pietà'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/piet.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pietà'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/piet.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
