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DOI article:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz: Mediaeval sources of the Pietà
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17162#0016
5. Pieta, panel of the Toruń Altar, ca 1390, Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
et mater cum magno dolore posuit eum super genua sua usque ad meridiem... et mortuus est puer
in sinu eius.25
It is worthy to notice that also in the text of the Breviary office, Mary, when holding on
Her lap and knees the body of Christ is called the Shunammite: Joseph ab Arimathea petit
corpus Ihesum quod de cruce depositum suo complexu mater excepit. Dolens Sunamitis sinu et
genibus suis sustinuit mortuum filium.2*
A prefiguration of the Pieta was found also in the story of David and Abisag27. According
to the interpretation by Cesarius of Heisterbach (ca 1180-1240) Mary is Sunamitis speciosa
25. Sermo LXXV. In die Parascev?s [in:] Sermones Parali de lempore et de sanctis, Strassburg, 1487, HC""" 12411. H. Swa-
rzenski, "Quellen zum dcutschcn Andachtsbild'', Zeitschrift fiir Kunstgeschichte, IV, 1935, p. 141 — 144, pointed to
a representation of the dcspairing Shunammite in the Bibie Moralisee of ca 1250 with tlie followlng inscription: Mo-
ritur puer in gremio matris et opressa dolore pro filio mulier plorabat et vehementer dolebat, This miniaturę with the
mother, who rises her hands up and bows hcr head over the child laying on her lap, was rccognized by the author
as eine ubllig isolierte, reine Pieta-Gruppe, wie sie in ihrer plastischer Form uns erst seit dem XIV. Jht bekannt ist.
See also H. Swarzenski, "A Painting of the Man of Sorrow", Bullelin of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 1956, No 4,
p. 82-87.
26. Dominica III Septembris: Septem dolorum BMV. Matutinum, in secundo nocturno, leclio IV. For this feast see G.M. Ro-
schini, Mariologia, Romae, 1948, II/3, p. 163 — 164.
27. III Reg. 1:3-4.
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et mater cum magno dolore posuit eum super genua sua usque ad meridiem... et mortuus est puer
in sinu eius.25
It is worthy to notice that also in the text of the Breviary office, Mary, when holding on
Her lap and knees the body of Christ is called the Shunammite: Joseph ab Arimathea petit
corpus Ihesum quod de cruce depositum suo complexu mater excepit. Dolens Sunamitis sinu et
genibus suis sustinuit mortuum filium.2*
A prefiguration of the Pieta was found also in the story of David and Abisag27. According
to the interpretation by Cesarius of Heisterbach (ca 1180-1240) Mary is Sunamitis speciosa
25. Sermo LXXV. In die Parascev?s [in:] Sermones Parali de lempore et de sanctis, Strassburg, 1487, HC""" 12411. H. Swa-
rzenski, "Quellen zum dcutschcn Andachtsbild'', Zeitschrift fiir Kunstgeschichte, IV, 1935, p. 141 — 144, pointed to
a representation of the dcspairing Shunammite in the Bibie Moralisee of ca 1250 with tlie followlng inscription: Mo-
ritur puer in gremio matris et opressa dolore pro filio mulier plorabat et vehementer dolebat, This miniaturę with the
mother, who rises her hands up and bows hcr head over the child laying on her lap, was rccognized by the author
as eine ubllig isolierte, reine Pieta-Gruppe, wie sie in ihrer plastischer Form uns erst seit dem XIV. Jht bekannt ist.
See also H. Swarzenski, "A Painting of the Man of Sorrow", Bullelin of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 1956, No 4,
p. 82-87.
26. Dominica III Septembris: Septem dolorum BMV. Matutinum, in secundo nocturno, leclio IV. For this feast see G.M. Ro-
schini, Mariologia, Romae, 1948, II/3, p. 163 — 164.
27. III Reg. 1:3-4.
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