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Madonna vs Pieta - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between madonna and pieta

is that madonna is (skateboarding) a one-footed lien to tail trick, where the front foot is taken off and kicked out straight down behind the board while pieta is .

madonna

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus.
  • .
  • * 1835 , Vol. XI, page 652 (June 1835):
    • We feel bound to add, however, that it is not very likely, in the usual chances of events, that such names as Alaric Attila Watts should have met in matrimony with those of Zillah Madonna Wiffen; and an unkind world may suggest a mystification somewhere.
  • * 2005 Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics , Allen Lane (2005), ISBN 0713998067, page 184:
    • But celebrities actually have a weak effect on baby names. As of 2000, the pop star Madonna had sold 130 million records worldwide but hadn't generated even the ten copycat namings?in California, no less?required to make the master index of four thousand names from which the sprawling list of girls' names on page 227 was drawn.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "Madonna") * Madonna lily ----

    pieta

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.
  • * 1998 , David Adams, Afterword: The Artistic Alchemy of Joseph Beuys'', Rudolf Steiner, Thomas Braatz (translator), ''Bees , page 195,
    • Whereas Beuys's early sculptural work was consciously formed within a modernized version of the stylized Romanesque tradition of art, frequently with a Christian content such as crucifixions or pietàs , he gradually was able to free himself from this more traditional approach.
  • * 2009 , Pico Iyer, 5: Making Kindness Stand to Reason'', Rajiv Mehrotra (editor), ''Understanding the Dalai Lama , page 61,
    • Ceremonial masks, Hindu deities, and pietàs shine down on you.
  • * 2011 , Caroline van Eck, Stijn Bussels, Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture , page 10,
    • It does not show the events it depicts as static, frozen in the eternal present of historia sacra in the way many late medieval crucifixions, pietàs or annunciations do, but as a narrative.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "pietà") * ----