# Pietà

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MORALES, Luis de](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morales-luis-de-rc16ff70ea1685d>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Oil on panel, 126 x 98 cm

## Commentary

Most of Morales&#39;s clientele preferred simplified compositions comprising a few figures, dramatically illuminated and posed against a dark or neutral background, the purpose of which was to arouse feelings of tragedy in the viewers and even move them to tears. This Pietà, which came from the Jesuit church in Córdoba, is an example of this type of compositions.

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- [Christ Carrying the Cross](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morales-luis-de-rc16ff70ea1685d/christ-carrying-the-cross-r622850a6faa134>)
- [Ecce Homo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morales-luis-de-rc16ff70ea1685d/ecce-homo-r5ef10c53596867>)
- [Madonna with the Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morales-luis-de-rc16ff70ea1685d/madonna-with-the-child-r216602b7ac8d9a>)
- [Madonna with the Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morales-luis-de-rc16ff70ea1685d/madonna-with-the-child-re0410e637b2b41>)
- [Mater Dolorosa](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morales-luis-de-rc16ff70ea1685d/mater-dolorosa-rd46f6337bfcb1b>)
- [Pietà](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morales-luis-de-rc16ff70ea1685d/piet-rd2d649cf2e0224>)
- [St Stephen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morales-luis-de-rc16ff70ea1685d/st-stephen-r72a5e290bea5a2>)
- [Virgin and Child \(La Virgen del Sombrero\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morales-luis-de-rc16ff70ea1685d/virgin-and-child-la-virgen-del-sombrero-r438c9ed55ef106>)
- [Virgin and Child with a Spindle](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morales-luis-de-rc16ff70ea1685d/virgin-and-child-with-a-spindle-r8eeda231333334>)
- [Virgin and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morales-luis-de-rc16ff70ea1685d/virgin-and-child-with-the-infant-st-john-the-baptist-r1df0594d809151>)
- [Virgin and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morales-luis-de-rc16ff70ea1685d/virgin-and-child-with-the-infant-st-john-the-baptist-rce72d1c966a05d>)

## Attribution

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