Looking at photos today I came across one of Michaelangelo's Pieta and I looked at it with new eyes. Â Not as a religious symbol, but as a symbol of grief of anyone who lose children in war, to cancer, to suffering for whatever reas. Â i wonder how to find photos and how to get permission to use them.on, and I thought how universal a symbol it is, how it unifies all diverse groups in a common emotion. Â Then i saw a short piece on conferences where women from all over the world were sharing info