Mary Magdalene Paintings - 10 Most Famous - Artst
网页Mary Magdalene Paintings – 10 Most Famous. For centuries, depictions of Mary Magdalene have been a hot commodity in western art. She is one of the most malleable characters in the Gospels, with stories about her appearing in both the Bible and several traditions that have developed outside of canonical religious literature.
Penitent Mary Magdalene | Kimbell Art Museum
网页Like Caravaggio, Artemisia painted Mary Magdalene many times, creating fresh expressions of the saint’s spirituality through deft use of light and shadow and intense physicality. Here, Mary Magdalene closes her eyes, fingering a cascade of auburn hair. In the shadows at left, an ointment jar and a small mirror lay flat on a table.
Magdalene with the Smoking Flame - Wikipedia
网页Magdalene with the Smoking Flame (also titled in French La Madeleine à la veilleuse, and La Madeleine à la flamme filante) is a c. 1640 oil-on-canvas depiction of Mary Magdalene by French Baroque painter Georges de La Tour.
Saint Mary Magdalene - NG177 | National Gallery, London
网页The image of Mary Magdalene as a sinner who was redeemed through her devotion to Christ pervaded representations in the seventeenth century. Guido Reni has painted the saint with her iconic long blonde hair, indicative of her status as a fallen woman and a reference to the story of the sinner who washed Christ’s feet and dried them with her hair.
Georges de La Tour | The Penitent Magdalen - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
网页A native of the duchy of Lorraine in eastern present-day France, La Tour was indebted to Caravaggesque painting, but tended toward even more simplified forms. The quiet atmosphere of this painting perfectly fits the subject, Mary Magdalen, who renounced the pleasures of the flesh for a life of penance and contemplation.
The Penitent Magdalen - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
网页As Mary Magdalen was thought to be a converted prostitute, Baroque poets and artists showed her as at once beautiful and penitent, thereby creating an image that combines sensuous beauty with deep feeling. In the painting she wears a cilice—a metal belt with spurs for the mortification of the flesh (fig. 3).
The Penitent Magdalene - Guido Reni — Google Arts & Culture
网页According to Christian tradition, after meeting Christ, Mary Magdalene repented of her former sinful ways. With her ivory skin and long golden hair, the beautiful Magdalene turns her gaze...
The Resurrected Christ Appearing to Mary Magdelene in the Garden
网页In the Gospel of John (20:11–17), Mary Magdalene arrives at Jesus’s empty tomb and asks a nearby gardener where she can find Jesus’s body. Calling her by name, the gardener reveals himself as Christ and asks that she report his resurrection to the disciples. In this tapestry, Mary wears a sumptuous cloak, shimmering with gilt-metal ...
Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, 'Mary Magdalene', about 1535-40
网页Mary Magdalene is here identified by the pot of ointment with which she anointed Christ’s feet and by the glimpse of her traditional red dress beneath a silver-grey shawl. The painting may represent Mary visiting Christ’s tomb unaccompanied, or it could be a highly dramatic ‘close-up’ of her meeting with the resurrected Christ, which ...
Rogier van der Weyden, 'The Magdalen Reading', about 1435
网页A young lady in an extravagant green dress sits on the floor, reading. Although she wears fifteenth-century clothing and is in a medieval room, she is a biblical figure: Saint Mary Magdalene. Her figure forms a semi-circle, with her head and legs curving around her bent knees, emphasising her absorption in her book.