# Pietà \(panel from the Roverella Polyptych\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TURA, Cosmè]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Oil on wood, 132 x 267 cm ## Commentary The Pietà was a popular theme in northern Italy as well as north of the Alps, even before Michelangelo made his famous marble Pietà in Rome. Tura's interpretation is partially based upon dramatic sculptural groups in terracotta, the closest executed being Niccolò dell'Arca's emotional Lamentation in nearby Bologna. Tura, however, has infused his own elements, such as the incorporation of a slight figure of Christ, whose outstretched arms unify the composition. ## Related artworks - [A Muse \(Calliope?\)]() - [A Muse \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(from the predella of the Roverella Polyptych\)]() - [Alfonso d'Este]() - [Allegory of August: Triumph of Ceres \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of August: Triumph of Ceres \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of August: Triumph of Ceres \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of August: Triumph of Ceres]() - [Allegory of July: Triumph of Jupiter \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of July: Triumph of Jupiter]() - [Allegory of June: Triumph of Mercury \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of June: Triumph of Mercury]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()