Danny's La Pietà, for the Love of Art

I met Danny last month across the street from Verdi Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.<br /> <br /> <br /> He had quite a lot of nice ink, and we focused on this piece, tattooed on the inside of his upper left arm:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3qqk0jEhmBy7ouMFgQET7v_ZxTmoRO0uzXgU0RcYCUme_ePePnzl-ZlLOc2UqY_-7r-rlqiYg6SaNMmjkiJlKlJ7qyutgeOq02IFPZ0rPyO9IzxElIlnt-Hsrc-s6ErJbbg1TcLn3Ks/s1600/Pieta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3qqk0jEhmBy7ouMFgQET7v_ZxTmoRO0uzXgU0RcYCUme_ePePnzl-ZlLOc2UqY_-7r-rlqiYg6SaNMmjkiJlKlJ7qyutgeOq02IFPZ0rPyO9IzxElIlnt-Hsrc-s6ErJbbg1TcLn3Ks/s400/Pieta.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><br /> This is based on Michelangelo's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet%C3%A0_%28Michelangelo%29">Pietà</a>, the famous sculpture in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.<br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx3JEZqAGBYEpBmIRQ1z9bq9aqfOWsjcJa9zpw80OhYRzpfTHaz7R20s_gefMUtTAkw-RsHuG0D6RIt_dtqlE28syYqqxfa0MLV2ETq6uranqpXEtzuL_cMLojrXluAWOFXAPQXa5sZsg/s1600/572px-Michelangelo%2527s_Pieta_5450_cropncleaned_edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx3JEZqAGBYEpBmIRQ1z9bq9aqfOWsjcJa9zpw80OhYRzpfTHaz7R20s_gefMUtTAkw-RsHuG0D6RIt_dtqlE28syYqqxfa0MLV2ETq6uranqpXEtzuL_cMLojrXluAWOFXAPQXa5sZsg/s400/572px-Michelangelo%2527s_Pieta_5450_cropncleaned_edit.jpg" width="381" /></a></div><br /> Why does Danny have this, and other classic art, inked on his flesh? I'll let him explain:<br /> <blockquote>"To be honest with you, I'm really into the Italian sculptors ... all [my] gray-scale pieces are ... purely art-based decisions. The only tattoos I have that have real significant meaning behind them are the words, you know, anything that's got words. All the art, it's just because I love the art." </blockquote>Danny also has tattoos that are based on the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.<br /> <br /> To recreate a masterpiece of Italian sculpture like <i>La Pietà</i>, in such fine detail, is truly remarkable.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLteE08OwVXoGSo4AhXaQiMRBxgaCZ_Vcp8bx6Mo_GXxFlWbAvtPRJBkG1ius_TBK-WfdvCT9kzNuhl_605VHOYVkdoO39bpZpf5oSwrGQGDa9CtiZIJ1G53-i3_udx77LgRaJ9Vn5Ei4/s1600/Pieta+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLteE08OwVXoGSo4AhXaQiMRBxgaCZ_Vcp8bx6Mo_GXxFlWbAvtPRJBkG1ius_TBK-WfdvCT9kzNuhl_605VHOYVkdoO39bpZpf5oSwrGQGDa9CtiZIJ1G53-i3_udx77LgRaJ9Vn5Ei4/s400/Pieta+detail.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><br /> Joshua Lord, at East Side Ink in Manhattan, is the artist who so skillfully created this tattoo. Joshua Lord's work has appeared previously on Tattoosday here and work from East Side Ink has been posted here several times, viewable under this tag.

Danny's La Pietà, for the Love of Art

I met Danny last month across the street from Verdi Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He had quite a lot of nice ink, and we fo...

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