PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Queenstown
Purchased from Nadene Milne Gallery Arrowtown, 2004

The Lacrimosa (Latin for weeping/tearful) is a name derived from Our Lady of the Sorrows, a title given to the Virgin Mary, as the bereaved mother of Jesus. It is part of the Dies Iraesequence in the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass. The text is taken from the Latin 18th and 19th stanzas of the sequence. Composers, including Mozart and Verdi have set the text as a musical movement of the Requiem Mass.