Dolorosa

English translation: Sorrowful Mother

13:15 Mar 3, 2020
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Spanish term or phrase: Dolorosa
This seems to be a painting genre, mentioned here in relation to a work by a Mexican artist in the 19th century;

En el trabajo de Josefa, la pintora autorretratada aparece representada en su estudio, rodeada por obras características de los temas socialmente aceptables para las mujeres artistas de la época, bodegones con flores e imágenes religiosas (una Dolorosa, a la derecha, entre las flores; una copia de la Virgen de Belén, de Murillo, al fondo, y en el caballete, una Santa Teresa), todas pinturas identificadas como de la autoría de la misma Josefa y de su hermana Juliana.

The English title of El Greco's La Virgen María, o Mater Dolorosa, seems to omit that word,

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Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 11:07
English translation:Sorrowful Mother
Explanation:
I can't speak to the artistic style, but their is a devotion to the Virgin as Sorrowful Mother.
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Lewis Richard White Jr.
Mexico
Local time: 08:07
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3 +5Sorrowful Mother
Lewis Richard White Jr.
4 +2Mater Dolorosa
philgoddard
5a Mater Dolorosa painting
Rodolfo Gil
5a representation of a Mater Dolorosa
Rodolfo Gil
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Jane Martin

  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Sorrowful Mother


Explanation:
I can't speak to the artistic style, but their is a devotion to the Virgin as Sorrowful Mother.



    https://www.learnreligions.com/sorrowful-mother-novena-542541
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorrowful_Mother_of_Warfhuizen
Lewis Richard White Jr.
Mexico
Local time: 08:07
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  David Hollywood: or "Lady of Sorrows"
4 mins

agree  philgoddard: You beat me to it, but I've left my answer in because it has more alternatives.
5 mins

agree  Lydia De Jorge: Yes, Lady of Sorrows.
3 hrs

agree  Yvonne Gallagher: Lady of Sorrows
4 hrs

agree  Rocio Barrientos
1 day 4 hrs
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Mater Dolorosa


Explanation:
You can leave this in Latin, or there are lots of ways to express it in English: Our Lady of Sorrows, Virgin Dolorosa, Sorrowing Virgin, Virgin of Sorrows...


The Seven Sorrows of Mary are a popular Roman Catholic devotion. In religious Catholic imagery, the Virgin Mary is portrayed in a sorrowful and lacrimating affect, with one or seven long knives or daggers piercing her heart, often bleeding.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Sorrows

philgoddard
United States
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: Lady of Sorrows
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agree  neilmac: Our Lady of Sorrows (OLOS)
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a Mater Dolorosa painting


Explanation:
I agree that you could go either with the Latin or with the English translation.

Rodolfo Gil
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a representation of a Mater Dolorosa


Explanation:
I agree that you could go either with the Latin or with the English translation.

Rodolfo Gil
United States
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2. f. Imagen de la Virgen María en la acción de dolerse por la muerte de Cristo.

Jane Martin
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