Our Lady of Sorrows Relief

Abstract

In the Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows, the third chapel on the right in Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, is a seventeenth-century polychrome wax relief of Our Lady of Sorrows. This title highlights the Virgin Mary's grief during the Passion and death of her son, Jesus Christ. The relief is set in a gilded frame and positioned beneath the polychrome wooden crucifix within the chapel.

The wax relief was restored in 2015, at the same time as the crucifix. The relief has been attributed to the school of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), likely due to the resemblance of the Virgin's face to Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.

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