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Maria (Lea van Acken) is a 14-year-old girl in a family attached to a Traditionalist Catholic organization, [a] who has dedicated her life to serving God. Over the course of 14 long takes, each echoing and named after the Stations of the Cross which Jesus endured on his path to Golgotha, Maria attempts a path of self-inflicted religious ascesis in the hope that God will cure her younger ...
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 .
As the Stations of the Cross are prayed during the season of Lent in Catholic churches, each station is traditionally followed by a verse of the Stabat Mater, composed in the 13th century by Franciscan Jacopone da Todi. James Matthew Wilson's poetic sequence, The Stations of the Cross, is written in the same meter as da Todi's poem. [37]
The number of other figures shown depended on the size and medium of the work, but there was a similar trend for early depictions to show a number of figures, giving way in the High Middle Ages to just the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist, shown standing on either side of the cross, as in the Stabat Mater depictions, or sculpted or ...
Jesus accepts his cross. A baritone soloist sings Ave Crux, from the introductive text III. Jesus falls for the first time. The male choir sings Jesus cadit, the female choir continues with Stabat Mater: IV. Jesus meets his mother, Mary. Solo organ V. Simon helps carry the cross. Solo organ VI. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus.
The first movement, beginning "Stabat Mater dolorosa" (The sorrowful Mother stood [by the cross]), is a setting of the first four stanzas from the poem, scored for the choir, the quartet of soloists and the full orchestra. [14]
A sequel that’s been in the making for over two decades, Gladiator II finally arrived in theaters on Nov. 22, to a thumbs up (not the dreaded thumbs down) from audiences.The story picks up 20 ...
Stabat Mater (Latin for "the mother was standing") is a compositional form in the crucifixion of Jesus in art depicting the Virgin Mary under the cross during the crucifixion of Christ alongside John the apostle. Rood cross group, Church of St Mary, Gdansk. It is common in groups of sculpture on a rood screen, and in paintings.