Book · Open Library
- Author
- Tiziano Scarpa
- First published
- 2008
- Editions
- 2
- Subjects
- 24.50 historical studies of music: general, Violinists, Music teachers, Orphanages, Orphans, 18.29 Italian literature, Fiction
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Pietro Perugino's depiction of Mary at the Cross, 1482. (National Gallery, Washington)
The Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Christian hymn to the Virgin Mary that portrays her suffering as mother during the crucifixion of her son Jesus Christ. Its author may be either the Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi or Pope Innocent III. The title comes from its first line, "Stabat Mater dolorosa", which means "the sorrowful mother was standing".