The Italian word can evoke the Italian tragedy... Below is a Lamentation of Christ taken down from the cross from the same workshop of Master Paul in Levocha. Here also are two websites that have some fifty ways in which the Piet has been represented in art: centuries of pain and grief--and love:http://christianart.blogspot.com/2006/04/piet-lamentation-over-dead-christ.htmlhttp://www.textweek.com/art/pieta.htm

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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