Pieta

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin Mary or by holy women and angels.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

E . piety), the name given to a picture, the subject of which is the dead Christ in the embrace of his sorrowing mother, accompanied by sorrowing women and angels; that sculptured by Michael Angelo, in St. Peter's at Rome, representing the Virgin at the foot of the cross, and the dead Christ in her lap.