# MASTER of the Pietà

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## Artist

- Profession: painter
- School: Italian

## Biography

Italian painter, active in Siena. Millard Meiss in his 1946 publication assembled a group of seven paintings, ascribing them to the same anonymous hand and giving an eighth to his workshop. The group included two panels portraying the Pietà: one in the Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon and the other in the Institute of Arts, Detroit; then the earliest known Sienese treatments of the subject, their author was thus christened the &#34;Master of the Pietà.&#34; Despite this moniker, the Crucifixion was the subject most frequently depicted by the artist; Meiss listed five treatments of the theme, to which a sixth was added in 2001.

## Related artworks

- [Crucifixion and the Virgin Annunciate](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-piet-rbffc1565077a73/crucifixion-and-the-virgin-annunciate-r4f3d2908a62f71>)
- [Pietà and Angel of the Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-piet-rbffc1565077a73/piet-and-angel-of-the-annunciation-r8ce1a3026e841e>)
- [The Crucifixion \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-piet-rbffc1565077a73/the-crucifixion-detail-rbf5645e05e7930>)
- [The Crucifixion](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-piet-rbffc1565077a73/the-crucifixion-r44f6ac59a76fe1>)
- [The Crucifixion](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-piet-rbffc1565077a73/the-crucifixion-r57b84447a7ac64>)
- [The Madonna and Child Enthroned \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-piet-rbffc1565077a73/the-madonna-and-child-enthroned-detail-ra89550be4a892a>)
- [The Madonna and Child Enthroned](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-piet-rbffc1565077a73/the-madonna-and-child-enthroned-rfd69b70cb1eadd>)

## Attribution

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