DOI issue:
No. 1-2
DOI article:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz: Mediaeval sources of the Pietà
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17162#0020
10. Pietas Patris, ca 1500, Repasze Niżne, Spisz,Parish Church (after M. Orłowicz)
At the close of the XVth century OIivier Maillard included in his Treatise on Passion, printed
in Lyon in 1498, an important passage, in which he endorsed the causative connection between
the event - the holding of the body of Jesus by the Virgin - on the one hand and the pictorial
representation of Pietas Mariae on the other: Joseph et Nicodemus ... deposuerunt eum de cruce
et posuerunt corpus Iesu in gremio benedictae malris Christi. Et ideo depingitur nostra domina
de pietate. Quid dicebat virgo Maria tenendo ipsum. Bernardus in lamentationibus. O carissime
fili quis te a me abstulit nunc te teneo mortuum: quid commisisti in quo deliquisti: certę populum
redimere voluisti... Fili mi tu nunc es mortuus: non est istud gaudium quando te peperi et lactavi.
Vos estis nunc mortuus ad faciendum misericordiam peccatoribus..,35
35. Feria VI de passione. Sermo 64 [in:] Quadragesimale opus declamatum parisiorum urbe ecclesia sancli Johannis in grania:
per uenerabilem palrem sacre scripture interpretem et óivini verbi preconem eximium palrem Oliuerium Maillardi ordinis
fralrum minorum, Lugduni, 7. Dec. 1498, p. ciivo. Cnmpare also our fig. 16; L. Brehier, L'Arl Chretien, Paris, fig. 176.
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At the close of the XVth century OIivier Maillard included in his Treatise on Passion, printed
in Lyon in 1498, an important passage, in which he endorsed the causative connection between
the event - the holding of the body of Jesus by the Virgin - on the one hand and the pictorial
representation of Pietas Mariae on the other: Joseph et Nicodemus ... deposuerunt eum de cruce
et posuerunt corpus Iesu in gremio benedictae malris Christi. Et ideo depingitur nostra domina
de pietate. Quid dicebat virgo Maria tenendo ipsum. Bernardus in lamentationibus. O carissime
fili quis te a me abstulit nunc te teneo mortuum: quid commisisti in quo deliquisti: certę populum
redimere voluisti... Fili mi tu nunc es mortuus: non est istud gaudium quando te peperi et lactavi.
Vos estis nunc mortuus ad faciendum misericordiam peccatoribus..,35
35. Feria VI de passione. Sermo 64 [in:] Quadragesimale opus declamatum parisiorum urbe ecclesia sancli Johannis in grania:
per uenerabilem palrem sacre scripture interpretem et óivini verbi preconem eximium palrem Oliuerium Maillardi ordinis
fralrum minorum, Lugduni, 7. Dec. 1498, p. ciivo. Cnmpare also our fig. 16; L. Brehier, L'Arl Chretien, Paris, fig. 176.
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