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Pieta, 1948

  • woodcut, paper
  • 245 x 180 mm
  • Inv. 1949-BA-6

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Artist

Frans Masereel RKD VIAF Wikidata
Blankenberge 1889 - Avignon 1972
woodcutters (printmakers)AAT

Title Pieta
Date 1948
Period 20th century
Medium and support woodcut AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings monogram and year bottom left: FM 1948
signature and year bottom right, outside the depiction: Frans Masereel / 1948
title and edition outside the depiction, bottom left: Piëta 5/25
watermarks at the top: ANUF.RE CANSON & MONGOLFIER 1 8 VIDALON-LES-AN
Collection print room
Object type woodcut AAT
Inventory number 1949-BA-6
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1949-BA-6
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7922/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300055874 religious symbolism AAT
300055865 Symbolism (artistic concept) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 11F25 'Mater Dolorosa' Iconclass
11L541411 Death (as one of the Four Last Things) Iconclass
31A236 lying figure Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31B6214 weeping Iconclass
31B62141 tears Iconclass
31D112 child Iconclass
31D11222 girl (child between toddler and youth) Iconclass
31D130 Maidenhood Iconclass
31E death of human being Iconclass
42E131 mourning the dead Iconclass
42E132 lamentation (~ burial rites) Iconclass
42G2111 father (first degree family relationships) Iconclass
42G2112 mother (first degree family relationships) Iconclass
42G2122 daughter (first degree family relationships) Iconclass
56BB1 Pain, Sorrow, Sadness; 'Dolore', 'Dolore di Zeusi' (Ripa) Iconclass
School / Style Expressionist (style) AAT
Modernist AAT
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