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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 Repentant Magdalene, also called The Conversion of Mary Magdalene, is an oil painting of the early 1660s by the Baroque Italian painter Guido Cagnacci.It shows Mary Magdalene, beside her remonstrating sister Martha, at the moment she repents, echoed by an allegorical pairing of Virtue, an angel, chasing out Vice, a devil.
Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Mary Magdalene; Madonna of St. Jerome (Correggio) Maestà (Duccio) Magdalen in the Desert; The Magdalen Reading; The Magdalen Weeping; Magdalene with the Smoking Flame; Magdalene at a Mirror; Magdalene with Two Flames; Man of Sorrows (Geertgen tot Sint Jans) Mary Magdalene (Scorel)
She looks to Heaven, with a tearful expression. The background is very dark, specially at the left. The darkening sky, at the right, shows a tree that seems to be facing the wind. Unlike his 1531 version of the same subject, Titian has covered Mary's nudity and introduced a vase, an open book and a skull as a memento mori. Its colouring is more ...
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 (Donatello) , 1453–1455 wooden statue by Donatello
Oil on canvas [10] Saint Jerome: after 1659 160 × 110.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna) Oil on canvas [11] The Repentant Magdalene: c. 1660–1663: 229.2 × 266.1 cm Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, CA) Oil on canvas [12] Head of a Woman in Left Profile, Looking Down: Undated 22 × 25.4 cm Nationalmuseum (Sweden)
The scene that the painting depicts is an event that is not described in the Gospels or the Golden Legend, and reflects the widespread beliefs at the time that, firstly, Mary Magdalene and Martha were sisters, living together, and secondly that Mary Magdalene was the woman mentioned elsewhere in the Gospels who had lived a life of sexual sin ...
Alternate titles include Martha Reproving Mary, The Conversion of the Magdalene, and the Alzaga Caravaggio. Like several other works of the period, the painting adheres to the medieval traditions, firstly that the sisters Mary and Martha referred to in the Gospels were Mary Magdalen and Martha of Bethany , and secondly that Mary Magdalen was ...