![La Pietá Umana [Human Compassion]](http://wolfsonian.org/sites/default/files/object/XX1989.128_001_03122007-jpg634516904240928412.jpg?1320806671 "La Pietá Umana [Human Compassion]")
- Title : La Pietá Umana [Human Compassion]
- Artist: Alberto Helios Gagliardo Artist
- Accession: XX1989.128
- Country: Italy Genoa
- Date: 1946
- Dimensions: Inches 76-1/2 59-1/4 Dimensions, framed Inches 70-3/4 52-3/4 Dimensions, unframed, Centimeters 194.3 150.5 Dimensions, framed Centimeters 179.7 134.0 Dimensions, unframed
- Collection: Object
- Category: Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject: Industry , Laborers/Workers , Figurative , Industrialization , Death
- Credit Line: The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
- URL: XX1989.128_001_03122007-jpg634516904240928412.jpg
- Tags: Paintings and Sculpture
Description:
Oil on canvas painting depicting a bare-chested male carrying a wounded or dying male in his arms while figures watch in the background set against a large black industrial scaffolding supporting silhouetted onlookers all against a cityscape.