Pieta
Artist: Titian
1576
Painting
This painting has the scale of an altarpiece, yet turned towards the night, a sombre pendant to his golden Assumption. Titian was a believer, and this painting is full of hints of resurrection - but the sense of dread makes it almost unbearable as Titian says farewell to light.
Pieta
Artist: Giovanni Bellini
1460
Painting
Pieta depicts the dead body of Christ being held up by Mary and Joseph. His wounds from the sword and his crucifixion are still fresh. The three figures are positioned in the central foreground with an obscured (by the three figures) rural landscape unwinding behind them.
This painting is Tempera on Panel and is housed in the Pinacoteca Brera, in Milan, Italy.
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