Definition of Pietas. Meaning of Pietas. Synonyms of Pietas

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Definition of Pietas

Pieta
Pieta Pi*e*t[`a]" (p[-e]*[asl]*t[aum]"), n. [It.] (Fine Arts) A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin Mary or by holy women and angels. --Mollett.

Meaning of Pietas from wikipedia

- Pietas (classical Latin: [ˈpiɛtaːs]), translated variously as "duty", "religiosity" or "religious behavior", "loyalty", "devotion", or "filial piety" (English...
- known as the Florentine Pietà. A generation later, the Spanish painter Luis de Morales painted a number of highly emotional Pietàs, with examples in the...
- The Pietà (Madonna della Pietà Italian: [maˈdɔnna della pjeˈta]; "[Our Lady of] Pity"; 1498–1499) is a Carrara marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount...
- Jesus. Pietà or Pieta may also refer to: Pietà (Southern German, Cloisters), a German wooden sculpture Pietà (Michelangelo), a marble sculpture Pietà (Titian)...
- at the request of Octavian's daughter Iulia and was then called Colonia Pietas Iulia Pola Pollentia Herculanea. The colony was part of Venetia et Histria...
- brother and a supporter of Mark Antony, a Roman politician. He was nicknamed Pietas as a young man. Lucius was a son of Marcus Antonius Creticus and Julia,...
- Regna firmat pietas (Danish: Fromhed styrker rigerne, Low German: Die Gotts Fruchtigkeit machet veste Reiche, abbreviated to R.F.P.) is a Latin phrase...
- Pieta Brown (born 1973) is a critically acclaimed American singer-songwriter, artist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who has released eight albums...
- geologist. He achieved worldwide notoriety when he vandalised Michelangelo's Pietà statue on 21 May 1972. He was not charged with a criminal offence after...
- and social justice activist Lidy Nacpil, among others. La Pieta, or the "Philippines' Pieta", named after the sculpture by Michelangelo, refers to a photograph...