Exhibition in Dresden reunites Dürer painting with altarpiece following a 21-year restoration

A tip of my (symbolic) hat to the folks at The New Liturgical Movement for this headline: Durer Altarpiece Unveiled 21 Years After Acid Attack.

LONDON. A panel from Dürer’s first major altarpiece has been restored after a 21-year treatment following a devastating acid attack in Munich. The Virgin of Sorrows has been unveiled in Dresden, where it was reunited with the rest of the altarpiece of the Seven Sorrows for the first time in nearly five centuries.


Dürer painted the Seven Sorrows and the Seven Joys of the Virgin in 1496, at the age of 25. It may have been commissioned by Frederick the Wise for his palace church at Wittenberg. The altarpiece was probably dismem­bered during the Refor­mation, and the seven panels of the Sorrows (of the life of Christ) passed to the artist Lucas Cranach the Younger, whose father had been a court painter. In 1588 Cranach’s estate sold them to the Saxon art collection in Dresden, and they later went to the city’s Gemäldegalerie [...]

Two announcements, for the present

Astute readers may notice that I have only put up the readings up to the Third Sunday of Lent. It's just that 'real life' had caught up to me - with my graduation from middle school and all - and am currently working on some other projects. But I did write them (yet unpublished), and am hoping to get them up before this month ends, so do not worry too much.

For now, there are some articles of high interest over at The New Liturgical Movement: the Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions by Pope Pius XII, as of now in two parts.

Can you guess which website this picture came from?

Unbelievable as it may sound, this picture actually came from the infamous Oregon Catholic Press' website (as part of the flash thingy in the main page). I think this is a positive sign that Summorum Pontificum is beginning to take root in many Church circles (even in unlikely places, such as this) and many are reevaluating their preconceived (and oftentimes prejudiced) opinions, beliefs and thoughts because of it. That is an encouraging thought for all of us.

Over at The New Liturgical Movement (where this pic came from), an article entitled: The Mansion of the Past Reopened.