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pieta | pinta |

As a noun pieta

is .

As a verb pinta is

.

pieta

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.
  • * 1998 , David Adams, Afterword: The Artistic Alchemy of Joseph Beuys'', Rudolf Steiner, Thomas Braatz (translator), ''Bees , page 195,
  • Whereas Beuys's early sculptural work was consciously formed within a modernized version of the stylized Romanesque tradition of art, frequently with a Christian content such as crucifixions or pietàs , he gradually was able to free himself from this more traditional approach.
  • * 2009 , Pico Iyer, 5: Making Kindness Stand to Reason'', Rajiv Mehrotra (editor), ''Understanding the Dalai Lama , page 61,
  • Ceremonial masks, Hindu deities, and pietàs shine down on you.
  • * 2011 , Caroline van Eck, Stijn Bussels, Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture , page 10,
  • It does not show the events it depicts as static, frozen in the eternal present of historia sacra in the way many late medieval crucifixions, pietàs or annunciations do, but as a narrative.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "pietà") * ----

    pinta

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the pronunciation of . Compare cuppa.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, colloquial) A pint of milk.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia pinta)
  • A human skin disease endemic to Mexico, Central America, and South America, caused by infection with a spirochete, Treponema pallidum carateum , which is morphologically and serologically indistinguishable from the organism that causes syphilis.
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    * English heteronyms ----