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Mater Dolorosa|ˈmeɪtə dɒləˈrəʊsə|
[med. L., lit. ‘sorrowful mother’.]
A title of the Virgin Mary, emphasizing her role in the Passion of Christ; a representation, in painting or sculpture, of the Virgin Mary sorrowing. Also transf., a woman who has the attributes of the sorrowful mother.
The term probably originated in the medieval Latin hymn beginning ‘Stabat mater dolorosa Iuxta crucem lacrimosa’.
1800J. Dallaway Anecdotes of Arts in England 516 He has a mater dolorosa and a boy playing on a lute by Guido. c1869Taylor & Dubourg in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1973) III. 308 Crosses her hands on her bosom, à la Mater Dolorosa. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. IV. viii. lxxx. 283 Dorothea's face..had the pale cheeks and pink eyelids of a mater dolorosa. 1888Cycl. Painters & Paintings III. 220/2 Mater Dolorosa..By Murillo, Madrid Museum... Companion to Ecce Homo. 1892Servite Manual (Servite Fathers) 200 (heading) Via Matris Dolorosæ or, The Stations of the Way of the Seven Dolours of Mary. 1895Yellow Bk. IV. 280 A vast cape that might have enshrouded the form of a Mater Dolorosa hung by the side of a jauntily-striped Langtry-hood. 1904G. Gronau Titian vii. 147 We can follow exactly the history of this picture and of its companion, the ‘Mater Dolorosa’, which Titian sent off to Charles V in 1555. 1917M. G. Segar Some Minor Poems Middle Ages xxi. 48 Old English poems on the Mater Dolorosa are always wonderfully full of feeling. 1923M. Innes Ten Florentine Painters 117 This group of the ‘Mater Dolorosa’ and her dead Son is called a Pietà. 1936R. Lehmann Weather in Streets iv. ii. 398 Mrs. Cunningham stood in the double doorway..receiving with a smile of the lips, but not of the hollowed mater dolorosa eyes, congratulations upon Amanda. 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 11 June 415/3 Patricia is the picture of the mater dolorosa of all time. 1942G. D. Carleton Mother of Jesus xiv. 68 The Mother of Jesus is indeed the Mater Dolorosa, the Sorrowful Mother. 1951L. MacNeice tr. Goethe's Faust i. 120 In a niche on the wall is an image of the Mater Dolorosa. 1955W. Smith tr. Mieggé's Virgin Mary viii. 171 All this conforms with..medieval piety..and the more recent veneration of the Mater dolorosa. |