Stock Photo - Jose de Ribera (""el Españoleto"") (1591-1652). The Pietà. 1633. Oil on canvas. 157 x 210 cm. . . José de Ribera was a Spanish Baroque successful painter, called Lo Spagnoletto, who lived and worked in Naples. His paintings show the characteristic strong contrasted light and shadows of the Tenebrism style. . . The Pietà is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus after his body was removed from the cross. The painting shows the Virgin holding up both hands, with Christ's body slumped to the floor in the foreground. John the Apostle is holding his back, while Mary Magdalene kisses Christ's feet. The figure emerging from the darkness depicts Joseph of Arimathea.