Dolorosa Madonna [SEP] creator
Dolorosa Madonna
The Dolorosa Madonna is a Madonna painting by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The work is oil on canvas and was painted in 1665. 
It is located in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla in Seville, Spain.
See also.
- Roman Catholic Marian art
, bringing with them traditions of iconography. Depictions of the Madonna and Child can be traced to the Eastern "Theotokos". In the Western tradition, depictions of the Madonna were greatly diversified by Renaissance masters such as Duccio, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giovanni Bellini, Caravaggio and Rubens. The early Renaissance saw an increased emphasis on Christ crucified and therefore Mary as the Sorrowful Mother, an object of compassionate devotion. Artists such as Titian depicted Mary as the Mater Dolorosa.
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