Pietà

The Pietà is a Carrara marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the "Sixth Sorrow" of the Virgin Mary by Michelangelo Buonarroti, in Saint Peter's Basilica, , for which it was made.
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Photo: Michelangelo, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork type: statue
  • Description: sculpture by Michelangelo
  • Also known as: “Pieta” and “Pietà (Michelangelo)”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Saint Peter’s Basilica and Sistine Chapel.

Church
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The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply St. Peter's Basilica, is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in , an independent microstate enclaved within the city of , Italy.

Church
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The is a chapel in the , the pope's official residence in . Originally known as the Cappella Magna, it takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1473 and 1481.

Square
Photo: Giannisk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Peter's Square is a large plaza located directly in front of in , the papal enclave in , directly west of the neighborhood of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vatican and Old Rome.

Photo: Michelangelo, Public domain.
City is the world's smallest country both by area and by population, and is the centre of Catholicism. This tiny country completely within is packed with more history and artwork than most cities in the world, and indeed many countries.

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is the historic medieval and renaissance center of . While the oldest section of Rome is at the , and the Modern Center has shifted to the Via Veneto, remains the city's most charming district, with lovely piazzas and streets to wander and find small cafes and restaurants.

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is a district in . The district's name derives from the Latin words "Trans Tiberem": beyond the Tiber river. Today is one of the centers of Roman night life; rich in pubs, restaurants, clubs.

Pietà

Latitude
41.9023° or 41° 54′ 8″ north
Longitude
12.45458° or 12° 27′ 17″ east
Open location code
8FHJWF23+WR
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map attribute
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Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Pietà” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሐዘን”
  • Arabic: “بيتتا”
  • Arabic: “تمثال بيتتا”
  • Armenian: “Պիետա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pyeta”
  • Basque: “Pieta”
  • Basque: “Pietà”
  • Basque: “Vatikanoko Pietà”
  • Belarusian: “П’ета”
  • Bengali: “পিয়েতা”
  • Bosnian: “Pietà”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиета”
  • Catalan: “La Pietat”
  • Catalan: “Pietà de Michelangelo”
  • Catalan: “Pietà”
  • Catalan: “Pietat de Miquel Àngel”
  • Catalan: “Pietat”
  • Chinese: “哀悼基督 (米开朗琪罗)”
  • Chinese: “哀悼基督”
  • Chinese: “圣母像”
  • Chinese: “皮埃塔”
  • Chuvash: “Пьета (Микеланджело)”
  • Chuvash: “Пьета”
  • Croatian: “Pieta”
  • Croatian: “Pietà”
  • Croatian: “Rimska Pietà”
  • Czech: “Pieta (Michelangelo)”
  • Czech: “Pieta”
  • Czech: “Vatikánská Pieta”
  • Danish: “Pietà”
  • Danish: “Vatikanske Pietà”
  • Dutch: “Pieta van Michelangelo”
  • Dutch: “Pietà van Michelangelo”
  • Dutch: “Piëta van Michelangelo”
  • Esperanto: “Pietato”
  • Estonian: “Pietà”
  • Finnish: “Pietà”
  • French: “La Pieta”
  • French: “La Pietà”
  • French: “Pietà”
  • Galician: “Piedade”
  • Georgian: “პიეტა (მიქელანჯელო)”
  • Georgian: “პიეტა”
  • German: “Pietà vaticana”
  • German: “Römische Pietà”
  • German: “Vatikanische Pietà”
  • Greek: “Pietà”
  • Greek: “Πιετά του Μιχαήλ Άγγελου”
  • Greek: “Πιετά”
  • Hebrew: “פייטה”
  • Hungarian: “Pietà”
  • Indonesian: “Patung Pieta”
  • Indonesian: “Patung Pietà”
  • Irish: “Pietà (Michelangelo)”
  • Irish: “Pietà”
  • Italian: “Pietà di Michelangelo”
  • Italian: “Pietà vaticana”
  • Italian: “Pietà”
  • Japanese: “サン・ピエトロのピエタ”
  • Japanese: “ピエタ”
  • Kazakh: “Ватикандық Пьета”
  • Korean: “미켈란젤로의 피에타”
  • Korean: “피에타”
  • Korean: “피에타상”
  • Latin: “Pietas”
  • Latvian: “Pieta”
  • Latvian: “Pietà”
  • Lithuanian: “Pieta”
  • Macedonian: “Пиета”
  • Malayalam: “Pietà”
  • Malayalam: “പിയത്തെ”
  • Malayalam: “പിയേത്ത”
  • Malayalam: “പിയേത്താ”
  • Malayalam: “പ്യേത്താ”
  • Maltese: “Pietà”
  • Nepali: “माइकलएन्जेलोको पिएटा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pietà”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vatikanske Pietà”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pietà”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vatikanske Pietà”
  • Norwegian: “Pietà”
  • Persian: “پیه‌تا”
  • Persian: “ترحم”
  • Polish: “Pieta Watykańska”
  • Polish: “Pietà watykańska”
  • Portuguese: “La pietà”
  • Portuguese: “Pietà de Michelangelo”
  • Portuguese: “Pieta”
  • Portuguese: “Pietá”
  • Portuguese: “Pietà”
  • Romanian: “Pietà”
  • Russian: “Ватиканская пьета”
  • Russian: “Пьета”
  • Scots: “Pietà”
  • Serbian: “Пиета”
  • Slovenian: “Pietà”
  • Spanish: “La Piedad de Miguel Angel”
  • Spanish: “La Piedad del Vaticano”
  • Spanish: “La Piedad”
  • Spanish: “La Pieta”
  • Spanish: “La Pietá”
  • Spanish: “P. Mayans”
  • Spanish: “Piedad del Vaticano”
  • Spanish: “Piedad”
  • Swedish: “Pietà”
  • Swedish: “Vatikanska Pietà”
  • Tamil: “தாயும் சேயும்”
  • Tamil: “பியேட்டா”
  • Thai: “ปีเอตะ”
  • Turkish: “Pietà vaticana”
  • Turkish: “Pietà”
  • Ukrainian: “П’єта”
  • Venetian: “Pietà vaticana”
  • Vietnamese: “Đức Mẹ sầu bi”
  • Welsh: “Pieta”
  • Welsh: “Pietà”
  • Western Armenian: “Փիեթա՛”
  • Yue Chinese: “哀悼基督”
  • Zulu: “Pietà”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Pauline Chapel and St Gregory the Illuminator Courtyard.

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