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Pinacoteca Civica "F. Podesti" - Audioguide - Francesco Podesti, The Pietà

The Pietà was commissioned to Podesti in 1829 by the Marquis Carlo Bourbon del Monte, Gonfalonier of Ancona, who was a friend and a protector of the painter. The painting was demanding and it needed nude and drapery studies. It was intended for private worship and, despite denoting the ambition to create a neo-sixteenth-century work of taste, it emerged as the specific character of the artist's mature style. This can be seen in the pleasant physiognomy of the Magdalene, with her breasts sensually uncovered, or in the expression of the angel sitting on the tomb, who smiles in contrast with the dramatic character of the subject. The transition from cardboard to canvas was certainly laborious and gave rise to several variations, such as the presence, in the painting, of the angel with the cross in the background and the symbols of the Passion in the foreground.