Pita vs Pieta - What's the difference?
pita | pieta |
A fiber obtained from the and related species, used for making cordage and paper.
The plant which yields the fiber.
(Webster 1913)
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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 ,
* 2009 , Pico Iyer, 5: Making Kindness Stand to Reason'', Rajiv Mehrotra (editor), ''Understanding the Dalai Lama ,
* 2011 , Caroline van Eck, Stijn Bussels, Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture ,
As nouns the difference between pita and pieta
is that pita is a flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels while pietà is a sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.pita
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(wikipedia pita)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* pita bread * pitta * pitta breadEtymology 2
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(en noun)pieta
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Noun
(en noun)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.
page 61,
- Ceremonial masks, Hindu deities, and pietàs shine down on you.
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.