In northern europe, particularly germany, devotional images which depict mary mourning her dead son, jesus, are known as

The PietĂ or vesperbild  
Is a usually a sculpture in Christian circles showing the Virgin Mary grieving because of her child turned and this into a prevalent reverential subject since the early times of the catholic church and generally have been accepted as a norm all over since then. Jesus inflexible in death, his body shows the very things he is passionate about. The sculpture shows the work of spiritualist have a strong belief in the image of the Virgin and that she would always come to their aid when they have problems since she had also experienced the pain of her son dying as the sculpture shows