Podcast Episode 14: The Röttgen Pietà

Welcome to the images and sources for Accessible Art History: The Podcast: Episode 14: The Röttgen Pietà. This gruesome sculpture is a fascinating work of medieval art. To learn more about it, then listen to the episode. You can find it here or by downloading it on your favorite podcast platform!

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Röttgen Pietà

Photo by: Ralf Heinz

(For extraordinary close ups of this work, please go to Heinz's site: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ralf_heinz/sets/72157632308738387)

Michelangelo's Pietà, 1498

CC 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons

Gero Crucifix (Triumphant Christ)

CC 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Man of Sorrows, Geertgen tot Sint Jans, 1486 (Suffering Christ)

Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Sources

Gardner's Art through the Ages, 12th edition by Fred S. Kleiner

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/early-europe-and-colonial-americas/medieval-europe-islamic-world/a/rottgen-pieta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet%C3%A0

https://aleteia.org/2018/11/16/the-little-known-terrifying-imagery-of-german-pietas/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andachtsbilder

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christianity/The-Middle-Ages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_Middle_Ages#:~:text=Christianity%20in%20the%20Middle%20Ages%20covers%20the%20history%20of%20Christianity,in%20the%20History%20of%20Europe.&text=In%20addition%2C%20all%20five%20cities%20were%20early%20centres%20of%20Christianity.