The Piet (Italian pronunciation: [pjeta]) is a subject in Christian art

depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found
in sculpture. As such, it is a particular form of the Lamentation of Christ, a
scene from the Passion of Christ found in cycles of the Life of Christ. When
Christ and the Virgin are surrounded by other figures from the New
Testament, the subject is strictly called a Lamentation in English, although
Piet is often used for this as well, and is the normal term in Italian.
The Mona Lisa (Monna Lisa or La Gioconda in Italian; La Joconde in French)
is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci,
which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most
written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the
world".[1]
The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of
Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel, and is
believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506, although Leonardo
may have continued working on it as late as 1517. It was acquired by King
Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic, on
permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris since 1797.[2]
The ambiguity of the subject's expression, which is frequently described as
enigmatic,[3] the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modeling of
forms and the atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have
contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work.
The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance
master Raphael. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, the later Pope
Clement VII (15231534) and conceived as an altarpiece for the Narbonne
Cathedral in France, Raphael worked on it until his death in 1520. The
painting exemplifies Raphael's development as an artist and the culmination
of his career. Unusually for a depiction of the Transfiguration of Jesus in
Christian art, the subject is combined with an additional episode from the
Gospels in the lower part of the painting.
The Transfiguration stands as an allegory of the transformative nature of
representation.[1] It is now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana in Vatican City.
Donatello's bronze statue of David (circa 1440s) is famous as the first
unsupported standing work of bronze cast during the Renaissance, and the
first freestanding nude male sculpture made since antiquity. It depicts David
with an enigmatic smile, posed with his foot on Goliath's severed head just

after defeating the giant. The youth is completely naked, apart from a laureltopped hat and boots, bearing the sword of Goliath.