Pietà
Sculpture by MichelangeloWikipedia
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Sep 12, 2026
Michael BerryHOST
Five filthy, exhausted men carrying a dead priest out of the smoke in a chair.
Michael BerryHOST
They call it the American Pietà, after Michelangelo, Mary holding the body of her son.
Michael BerryHOST
It's powerful imagery, man.
Michael BerryHOST
Oof.
Mark GagnonHOST
It's in postcards, it's on textbooks, and it's very sad and very beautiful.
Mark GagnonHOST
It's almost like a modern version of the Pieta.
Mark GagnonHOST
You know? Like a, a mother in anguish holding her child raised, they're both about to die.
Mark GagnonHOST
But the DNA came back, and what's interesting is that the mother isn't a mother at all, it was a man.
Mike PantileHOST
And now before I get into the story real quick, I had a powerful reflection.
Mike PantileHOST
I was sitting with my friend, uh, Gabby Castillo, many of you may know him, Gabby After Hours, and I reflected on the Pieta image, the statue, right? We know this statue.
Mike PantileHOST
It's ornate, it's beautiful, it's the Blessed Virgin Mary holding the corpse, the, the, the dead body of Jesus Christ.
Mike PantileHOST
But I don't think we've gone deep enough with that image.
MBHOST
On the left of your screen right now, that is Pope John Paul II's tomb.
MBHOST
And then on the right is the iconic Pieta, you know, one of the most sought-after and viewed pieces in history.
MBHOST
But I will tell you...
MBHOST
Did you
Patrick MadridHOST
Hi there.
Betty AnnAUDIENCE
I have a question about the Pieta.
Patrick MadridHOST
Yes.
Betty AnnAUDIENCE
Um, I bought four of them 'cause I have four daughters, and I bought the fifth one for me, but, um, I noticed that Mary was touching his knee, and I, um, understand that he's... she's not supposed to touch his body 'cause it's sacred.
Betty AnnAUDIENCE
I returned it.
Betty AnnAUDIENCE
I bought it, but I returned it because she was actually touching his knee.
Patrick MadridHOST
Are you talking about the little boo- blue booklet called The Pieta?
Betty AnnAUDIENCE
Uh, it's a statue.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Despite the suffering, we see God the Father's intimacy with Jesus during His Passion.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The Pieta image of Mary holding Jesus' body shows pure intimacy.
speaker_1NARRATOR
We don't like pain.
speaker_1NARRATOR
So we don't like to combine intimacy with pain.
Morgan ScorpionNARRATOR
And he gave them better order and cohesion, and enriched them with figures, such as are not seen in Rome or in any other place but Florence, where he executed a great number.
Morgan ScorpionNARRATOR
In this respect there has never been any man who has surpassed him in excellence, as may be seen from the ornament and the predella painted with little grotesques in colour round the Pietà that Pietro Perugino executed for the altar of the Seristori in Santa Croce at Florence.
Morgan ScorpionNARRATOR
These are highlighted with various colours on a ground of red and black mixed together, and are wrought with much facility and with extraordinary boldness and grace.
Morgan ScorpionNARRATOR
Andrea introduced the practice of covering the facades of houses and palaces with an internaco of lime mixed with the black of ground charcoal, or rather burnt straw, on which internaco, when still fresh, he spread a layer of white plaster.
Neil SaavedraPANELIST
They sound like pros.
Bill HandelHOST
Yeah, it's going to reach the point where the security is going to be much like the Mona Lisa or the Pieta.
Bill HandelHOST
Behind.
Bill HandelHOST
Yeah, behind this bulletproof glass that you can't get through.
Ivo IvanovHOST
We didn't even touch on monuments.
Ivo IvanovHOST
Michelangelo and David and the Pieta and those timeless monuments I feel like monuments that are either made out of stone like the pyramids and the Sphinx and are in climates like a desert where there's no they don't even have the necessary conditions to get erosion
Lewis WaltonHOST
yeah
Ivo IvanovHOST
they will last the longest and also monuments like Lou said, that are carved in words and not in stone or not buildings, you know, like poems and streets, those things probably will last
Greg RoqueGUEST
I mean like something that's, that's like not like just not good, you know, like, cause I hate when people are like, Oh, my time is precious.
Greg RoqueGUEST
What are you reading about? How fucking Michelangelo card Pieta? No, you're not.
Greg RoqueGUEST
No, don't act like you're aspiring towards some transcendental truth or something.
Greg RoqueGUEST
You just, you know, like you sound so fucking pretentious and stupid.
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