Word: pietas
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...holding the other's not-quite-covered genitals. He thought "Untitled #4"--which depicts a naked woman arched backwards, her crotch thrust toward the camera lens--might no; be the most appropriate backdrop for Silly Sally the Clown. He had problems with Wolf's version of Michelangelo's "Pieta": two nude men aping the famous pose of the Virgin Mary holding the dead Jesus...
Since World War II, art vandalism has been relatively rare, and always (so to speak) personal. When a deranged Hungarian-Australian tourist named Laszlo Toth attacked Michelangelo's Pieta in St. Peter's with a hammer in 1972, it was because he believed himself to be the son of God. When the future art dealer Tony Shafrazi vandalized Picasso's Guernica in the Museum of Modern Art in 1974, he moronically fancied he was making a point about art politics...
...opera, sung by a chorus of exiled Palestinians; later the Israelis get equal time. Goodman combines flights of fancy with earthy images and expressions -- this must be the first operatic libretto in history to employ the word asshole and the Yiddish meshugaas. Yet, as in Marilyn Klinghoffer's homey pieta, Goodman can soar. "I have only a short time," the widow sings after learning of her husband's death. "What can part us while I live? I grieve as a pregnant woman grieves for the unseen long-imagined...
...many art and architectural treasures, including those of Michelangelo and Bernini, the Vatican does not list their book value, considering them to be held in trust for all humanity. In short, the church must look to the generosity of the faithful rather than the sale of the Pieta or Raphael's frescoes, if it is to balance its budget...
Today, students only have to profess a knowledge of a few useful classical terms like "Veritas," "Ad nauseum," and "PiEta...