mater lachrymarum

"The eldest of the three is named Mater Lachrymarum, Our Lady of Tears. She it is that night and day raves and moans, calling for vanished faces. […]
 Her eyes are sweet and subtle, wild and sleepy, by turns; oftentimes rising to the clouds, oftentimes challenging the heavens. She wears a diadem round her head."

Thomas de Quincey, Suspiria de Profundis

Credit

artwork | florence wibowo
paintings | konrad limbeck
setdesign | dieperlentaucher.in
art project | the three mothers