Pieta,
Giotto di Bondone (known as Giotto)
1304-1306 Fresco
Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

 

Like other Lamentation and Deposition images, Giotto's Pieta includes the whole entourage of saints,and angels. While this detracts from the quiet solitude of Mary's grief, so common in later versions, we are invited into another experience-- the chaos and din of the group's collective mourning.