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Pietas

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Pietas
goddess of faithfulness, respect, and affection. [Rom. Myth.: Kravitz, 192]


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He is a recipient of both the Pietas and President's Medals from St.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The litany of artists who created famous depositions, lamentations, or pietas reads like a who's who of Western art: Fra Angelico, Donatello, Filipino Lippi, Perugino, Bellini, Raphael, Rubens, Manet, Chagall.
Renaissance Italy produced hundreds of classic sculpture, from Michelangelo''s David to his Pietas to Moses.
 
 
 
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