The Pieta - William Bouguereau apostles the leading artist of Romanticism

the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan

as if beholding a celestial vision

Francisco de Zurbarán (baptized November 7

tilting her head on her clasped hands and weeping

Like the painting of François de Charette by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin

The Pieta - William Bouguereau apostles the leading artist of RomanticismWilliam Bouguereau personalised the participants in this terrible event of the Passion of Our Lord. The angels are individual characters showing individual responses. Mary is primarily a mother who has lost her only Son. This personal tribute to the overwhelming despair of a bereft parent is contained and concentrated within a classical format. The formality of the construction: the rainbow of angels, the detailed, almost photo realist, wine jug,