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9 unusual facts about Pieta


Angela Galea

Angela Galea (born May 5, 1983 in Pietà) is a retired Maltese swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.

Bill Eastman

After the war he commanded the RAOC Training Centre until his retirement in 1966, when he retired with his wife to Malta, where he died, and is buried in the Ta' Braxia Cemetery in Pietà.

Diane Borg

Diane Borg (born September 12, 1990 in Pietà, Malta) is a Maltese sprinter.

Gareth Sciberras

Gareth Sciberras (born 29 March 1983 in Pietà, Malta) is a professional footballer currently playing for Birkirkara in the Maltese Premier League, where he plays as a midfielder.

Glenn Bedingfield

Glenn Bedingfield (b. 15 November 1974, Pietà, Malta) is a Maltese journalist and formerly a Member of the European Parliament and General Secretary of the Forum Żgħażagħ Laburisti (the Labour Youth Forum of the Maltese Labour Party) and member of the Party's National Executive.

Jean Malouel

Malouel's oeuvre on panel remains controversial; the most generally accepted painting of his to survive is the Pietà tondo in the Louvre, the first true tondo of the Renaissance, though this is not accepted by Châtelet.

Malcolm Licari

Malcolm Licari (born 18 April 1978 in Pietà, Malta) is a professional footballer currently playing for Rabat Ajax in the Maltese Premier League, where he plays as a striker, and also occasionally as a defender.

Pietà, Malta

Within the boundaries of Tal-Pietà is the hamlet of Gwardamanġa.

St. Luke's Hospital, Malta

Luke's Hospital (in Maltese: Sptar San Luqa), was a general hospital located on Gwardamanġia hill, in Pietà, Malta.


Agata della Pietà

She is known to have been the soloist in motets commissioned from Giovanni Porta and Andrea Bernasconi, in whose manuscripts she is mentioned by name; she is also mentioned in an anonymous verse tribute to musicians of the Pietà cori which dates to around 1740.

Casa de Pilatos

The rooms on this floor include major paintings dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, including the Pietà by Sebastiano del Piombo.

Copies by Vincent van Gogh

They also offer the conjecture of some scholars of a resemblance between the Van Gogh and the red-bearded Christ in The Pietà and Lazarus in the copy after Rembrandt.

Enguerrand Quarton

The painting came from Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, just across the Rhône from Avignon, and is sometimes known as the "Villeneuve Pietà".

Expiatory Chapel of Monza

The entrance is surmounted by a Pieta by the sculptor Lodovico Pogliaghi.

Francisco de los Cobos y Molina

One sad note was the loss during a shipwreck of a large assembly of Italian works, including a Pietá by Sebastiano del Piombo and a series of paintings from the City council of Lucca.

Ignaz Günther

Weyarn—Catholic Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul (woodcarving on high altar, including Annunciation, Pietà, putti, the carved shrine of Saint Valerius, and silver-framed tabernacle) (1763–1764)

Immaculata-Lasalle High School

Ivan Meštrović’s Pieta notable sculpture arrived in Miami the same day and was unceremoniously installed facing Biscayne Bay in front of the Immaculata classroom building.

Imola

In the garden annexed to the church is a precious Pietà in terracotta of late-15th century Bolognese or Faenza school.

Laszlo Toth

Toth was subdued by bystanders, including American sculptor Bob Cassilly, who was the first person to pull him away from The Pietà.

Lazlo Toth

Lazlo Toth, pen name under which comedian Don Novello wrote a series of letters to public figures and corporations; the name is derived from that of the Pietà vandal

Laszlo Toth, Hungarian-born geologist who attacked Michelangelo's Pietà with a hammer in 1972

Lucéram

Sights include the church St. Margaret (late 15th century), housing an altarpiece by Ludovico Brea and a 13th-century Pietà.

Nicola Fago

Between 1704 and 1708 he worked at the Conservatorio Sant'Onofrio, but from 1705 to 1740 he was based at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, where his pupils included Leonardo Leo, Francesco Feo, Giuseppe de Majo, Niccolo Jommelli, Nicola Sala, Michele de Falco, Carmine Giordani as well as his own son Lorenzo Fago.

Nikki Gil

She is known for being part of the afternoon remake of Carlo J. Caparas' Pieta in 2008-2009 as Guia V. Angeles, and also in 2009, she portrayed Princess Punzalan's role in the afternoon drama which ran in 2009 and 2010 as Julie Bernardo in Nagsimula sa Puso.

Notre-Dame de Clignancourt

The church still contains paintings and frescos by prominent 19th-century artists, including Romain Cazes and Félix-Joseph Barrias, and a large marble sculpture depicting the Pietà.

Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon

The painting came from Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, just across the Rhône from Avignon, and is sometimes known as the "Villeneuve Pietà".

Pietro Cussida

It was through Cussida's patronage that Van Baburan painted the Entombment, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and Christ on the Road to Calvary for the Chapel of the Pietà of the Church of San Pietro in Montorio.

Robert Hupka

Hupka was also the author of Michelangelo: Pieta, a collection of a hundred photographs, from various angles and with different lighting, of Michelangelo's Pieta, taken in 1964 when this sculpture was exhibited at the New York World's Fair.

San Pietro, Perugia

Other works of art include works by Ventura Salimbeni, Eusebio da San Giorgio, Orazio Alfani, copies after Perugino, Girolamo Danti (sacristy, 1574), Giovanni Lanfranco, Mino da Fiesole (a marble with Young Jesus, St. John the Baptist and St. Hyeronimus, in the Vibi Chapel), a Jesus in the Orchard attributed to Guido Reni, two grand canvas by Giorgio Vasari, and a Pietà of Sebastiano dal Piombo's school.

Smokey Hogg

:For the English association footballer for Malta, Pietà Hotspurs, and Valletta, see Andrew Hogg

SS Cristoforo Colombo

In the spring of 1964, the Cristoforo Colombo carried the Pietà from the Vatican to the 1964 New York World's Fair.


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