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!
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
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.