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DONNER, Georg Raphael: Pietà

🖼 Pietà, 1740-41
Lead, height 220 cm, width 280 cm
Cathedral
Valencia, Italy

Tender grief unfolds as Mary cradles her son's lifeless body, rendered in soft, flowing lead with intimate realism. Donner's Austrian Baroque masterpiece transforms religious suffering into visceral human emotion, establishing the Pietà as an enduring meditation on maternal loss and divine sacrifice.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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