Category Archives: W(holy) Queer

Michaelangelo’s Pietà (circa 1499) stands in St Peter’s basilica in the Vatican (Michelangelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

What effect does the image have on you? Do you recognise the iconographic codes the picture plays with? How successfully do you think it brings together queerness and religion?  Compare with source artworK