Two women and a man support the gray, lifeless body of a nearly nude man along a stone ledge in this vertical painting. The people have pale skin, except for the dead man at the center, Jesus, who has ash-white skin with dark shadows around his closed eyes. He has a long straight nose, and his lips are slightly parted. He has a brown beard, and his long, wavy hair falls away from his face. A white cloth wraps across his hips, and blood trickles from a gash over his right ribs and holes in his feet. A woman and man prop him up on either side, each holding Jesus by a limp arm, and each has a…
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Pietà

Moretto da Brescia (Italian, 1498 - 1554)

1520s

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 175.8 × 98.5 cm, 116 kg (69 3/16 × 38 3/4 in., 255.734 lb.) ; framed: 206.06 × 129.06 × 7.62 cm (81 1/8 × 50 13/16 × 3 in.)
Culture
Brescian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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