# Pietà [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, German]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Painted limestone, height 75 cm ## Commentary Pietà c. 1400 Painted limestone, height 75 cm Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich This Pietà - an example of the most popular Gothic image types - comes from the Seeon monastery near Salzburg. It is superbly structured so as to emphasize the Virgin's gaze as she tries to balance her big, awkward baby's corps on her knees. Two separate ideas, maternal love and death, are combined in the Pietà to form a three-dimensional cult-image that could be placed on the altar. The sense of heavy weight combined with the materiality of the textures and liquid tears visible in the image made the sense of touch all-pervasive in the Pietà. ## Related artworks - [12 scenes from the Life of Christ]() - [A Bath-House]() - [A carpenter at work]() - [A Knight of the Rehlinger Family]() - [A Lady]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Altarpiece of the Seven Joys of Mary]() - [Altarpiece of the Seven Joys of Mary]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()