About This Artwork

Filippo Parodi
Italian, 1630–1702

Pietà, c. 1686

Terracotta
71 x 79 x 46 cm
Helen Grove and Frederick W. Renshaw endowments; restricted gift of Kay and Frederick Krehbiel; Kay and Frederick Krehbiel endowment; through prior gifts of George F. Harding and Mrs. Florence May Schoenborn, 2002.605

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, “Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova,” 18 November 2001 – 3 February 2002, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 14 March – 7 July 2002, no. 57.

Publication History

Bruce Boucher, ed., Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001), pp. 222-23, no. 57.

Bruce Boucher, “Pieta,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 29, 2 (2003), pp. 58-59 (color ill.).

Ownership History

Private collection, Florence [see Boucher 2001]. Giovanni Pratesi, Florence, by 2001 [according to copy of fax from Bruce Boucher to Sue Pellowe, 7 March 2002, in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 2002.