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Penitent Magdalene (also called Repentant Madalene) is a 16th-century oil on canvas painting by Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio. The painting portrays a repentant Mary Magdalene bowed in penitent sorrow as she leaves behind her dissolute life, its trappings abandoned beside her. [ 1 ]
The Penitent Magdalene is a painting of saint Mary Magdalene by Titian dating to around 1531, signed 'TITIANUS' on the ointment jar to the left. It is now in the Sala di Apollo of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy.
Though the "Penitent Magdalene" was the usual depiction for the many single figures of Mary Magdalene in art, Donatello's gaunt, emaciated figure differs greatly from most depictions, which show a beautiful young woman in nearly perfect health. The Magdalene Penitent is famous for the detailed and very realistic carvings on the statue.
The Penitent Magdalene (titled Repentant Mary Magdalene in the Hermitage) is an oil on canvas painting by Titian, from the c. 1560s. It depicts Saint Mary Magdalene. it is held in the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg. [1]
Penitent Magdalene or Penitent Magdalen refers to a period of repentance in the life of Mary Magdalene, according to medieval legend, and a large number of artworks showing this subject, including: Penitent Magdalene, 1453–1455 wooden statue by Donatello; Penitent Magdalene, c. 1597 painting by Caravaggio
Penitent Magdalene is a 1616–1618 painting by the Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi.This painting hangs in the Pitti Palace in Florence. [1] The subject is the biblical figure Mary Magdalene, but the painting references another biblical woman, Mary, the sister of Lazarus. [2]
Penitent Magdalene is a painting by the Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi. It hangs in Seville Cathedral. It has probably been in the cathedral since the late 17th century. [1] She returned to the subject later in the 1620s in Mary Magdalene as Melancholy.
The painting's history is confused by the existence of several copies and variants - it and Danaë are the commonest subjects in Titian's oeuvre. [2] Vasari's Lives of the Artists mentions several copies of the Penitent Magdalene, [2] the oldest of them (the only pre-Tridentine of the four) was then in the 'guardaroba' of the Duke of Urbino and later came to Florence as part of Vittoria Della ...