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Answer for the clue "Feature of 1964–65 fair ", 5 letters:
pieta

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Word definitions for pieta in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Virgin holding the dead body of Christ," 1640s, from Italian pieta , from Latin pietatem (see piety ).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pietà is a painting by the Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden dating from about 1441 held in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium , Brussels. There are number of workshop versions and copies, notably in the National Gallery , London, in the Prado ...

Usage examples of pieta.

Later, some probationers passing noticed him kneeling before the pieta, and coming back after a time found him still there.

Nec pudor aut pietas continuit quominus impii spoliata Dei templa, occupatas arces, opes publicas, regiones urbis, atque honores magistratuum inter se divisos.

He had wanted to do a Pietà ever since he had completed his Madonna and Child: for just as the Madonna and Child was the beginning, the Pietà was the end, the preordained conclusion of everything that Mary had decided in that fateful hour God had allotted to her.

It left his mind free during the warm spring hours to reflect on the Pietà and its meaning.

For the sum of four hundred and fifty ducats in papal gold he agreed to make a Pietà of marble, one hundred and fifty ducats to be paid as he began, and a hundred ducats every fourth month.

After a month of festivities it became clear that he was not going to be able to conceive or carve a Pietà under these diverting conditions.

Those who saw his finished Pietà would take the place of the biblical witnesses.

And with the warmer weather came the Cardinal of San Dionigi to see how his Pietà was faring.

Eighty per cent of your money from the Bacchus and the Pietà has gone to your family.

Once the Pietà is sitting in its niche, no one will bother to have it removed.

He asked Guffatti to come to the workshop, showed him the Pietà and discussed the problem with him.

They carried the Pietà, eight strong, to the ancient wagon with its bed of straw, and roped it in.

He swallowed hard at the thought of putting his lovely Pietà in a basilica which had not long to remain upright.

The Guffatti lowered their bundle carefully before the empty niche, unwrapped the blankets, wiped their bands clean of sweat, raised the Pietà reverentially to its place.

Those who did hastily genuflected before the Pietà, crossed themselves and moved on.