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Pietà
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.
Publications
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.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Filippo Parodi (Italian, 1630–1702)
- Date
- c. 1686
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Dimensions
- 71 × 79 × 46 cm (28 × 31 1/8 × 18 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- statuette
- Style
- 17th Century
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Helen Grove and Frederick W. Renshaw endowment funds; purchased with funds provided by Kay and Frederick Krehbiel; Kay and Frederick Krehbiel Endowment Fund; through prior gifts of George F. Harding and Mrs. Florene May Schoenborn
- Accession no.
- 2002.605
Provenance
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.
More by Filippo Parodi in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001987
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