"pietà" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Italian pietà. Doublet of piety, and pity.",
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          "ref": "1998, David Adams, “Afterword: The Artistic Alchemy of Joseph Beuys”, in Thomas Braatz, transl., Bees, Rudolf Steiner, page 195",
          "text": "Whereas Beuys's early sculptural work was consciously formed within a modernized version of the stylized Romanesque tradition of art, frequently with a Christian content such as crucifixions or pietàs, he gradually was able to free himself from this more traditional approach.",
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          "ref": "2009, Pico Iyer, “5: Making Kindness Stand to Reason”, in Rajiv Mehrotra, editor, Understanding the Dalai Lama, page 61",
          "text": "Ceremonial masks, Hindu deities, and pietàs shine down on you.",
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          "ref": "2011, Caroline van Eck, Stijn Bussels, Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture, page 10",
          "text": "It does not show the events it depicts as static, frozen in the eternal present of historia sacra in the way many late medieval crucifixions, pietàs or annunciations do, but as a narrative.",
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        "A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus."
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        {
          "word": "pieta"
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