{"id":382,"date":"1999-08-10T19:56:46","date_gmt":"1999-08-10T09:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/?p=382"},"modified":"2023-02-15T23:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:11:43","slug":"la-pieta-study-on-michelangelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/la-pieta-study-on-michelangelo\/","title":{"rendered":"La Pieta, study on Michelangelo."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2-Pieta-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2-Pieta-2-360x350.jpg\" alt=\"2 Pieta 2\" width=\"266\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>78cm x 78cm Oil on canvas board.\u00a0Based on Michelangelo&#8217;s\u00a0sculpture at St Peters Basilica. Phillip Carrero.<\/p>\n<p>One of Michelangelo\u2019s most revered works, La Pieta\u2019 ( Translation: The Pity)\u00a0was commissioned in the year 1499 by the French Cardinal\u00a0Jean de Billheres.<\/p>\n<p>While the scene presents the viewer an older Jesus\u2019 lifeless body being held up in his mother\u2019s lap, the younger Mary can be said to depict a more common scene of mother and child. Adding to this interpretation, some also feel that it is both a snapshot of Jesus\u2019 entire life, from youth to death, wrapped into one sculpture. But, it is important to note that all art is subjective, and the true answer lies within us. One thing is undeniable though, and that is the sheer power and emotion the scene seems to evoke from every angle, every time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>78cm x 78cm Oil on canvas board.\u00a0Based on Michelangelo&#8217;s\u00a0sculpture at St Peters Basilica. Phillip Carrero. One of Michelangelo\u2019s most revered works, La Pieta\u2019 ( Translation: The Pity)\u00a0was commissioned in the year 1499 by the French Cardinal\u00a0Jean de Billheres. While the scene presents the viewer an older Jesus\u2019 lifeless body being held up in his mother\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-portrait-of-sculpture","category-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}