The director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Tim Knox, has announced that a public appeal to raise £85,000 to keep a seventeenth-century carving of the Mater Dolorosa, the Virgin of Sorrows, in Cambridge has been successful. He described the wooden bust by the Spanish sculptor Pedro de Mena as “an arrestingly intense portrait of a beautiful young woman depicted in a moment of hopeless anguish”, adding: “I hope that visitors to the Fitzwilliam will enjoy it for years to come.&
09 October 2014, The Tablet
Joy over Sorrows
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