The Pietà

Item no. 05

$1,400

Mary holds her son across her lap, the oldest and quietest of sorrows.

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Item number: 05
Material: Bethlehem olive wood
Technique: Carved by hand
Delivery: Worldwide, tracked, dispatched within 48 hours

Shipping

We dispatch every order within 48 hours by EMS Express Mail Service, fully tracked. Your tracking number is sent by email on the day your parcel leaves Bethlehem.

Payment

For now we accept payment by bank transfer only. Once we have confirmed your order and the total, including shipping, we send you our bank details. Your order leaves Bethlehem once the transfer arrives, and if we cannot fulfil an order we refund it in full.

Returns and breakage

Each piece is packed by hand in Bethlehem, so we cannot accept returns or exchanges once an order has shipped. Should anything arrive damaged, email us a photograph at info@saint-michael-store.com and we will send a replacement.

About this piece

What it shows

After the Cross, Mary receives the body of Christ. The subject has been carved and painted for seven hundred years, and it asks the same thing each time: that we stay a while with grief. Here her head bends low over him and the folds of her robe pool across the base.

How it is made

Carvers say olive wood shows itself best in drapery, and this piece shows why. The grain swirls through Mary's mantle in dark, smoke-like bands that no chisel could have planned. The broad base is cut to show the wood's figure, with a plate reading “Pieta”.