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Oil on canvas 93x73 CM depicting Dainte Marie Madeleine. Created by a Florentine school in the 17th CENTURY. The painting was later re-finished. Mary of Magdala, Mary Magdalene or Magdalene, called Mary the Magdalene in the Gospels, was a disciple of Jesus who followed him to his final days. The four Gospels name her as the first witness to the Resurrection, and she is responsible for notifying the apostles. Christian tradition and iconography have drawn on these canonical and apocryphal texts to portray Mary Magdalene in many different ways: first as the spiritual wife of Christ and apostle of Revelation, then from the 4th century onwards as the repentant, scorned and disowned sinner, the Middle Ages seizing on numerous legends to create a saint. In sacred art, Mary Magdalene is often depicted naked, with her hair long and untied, to signify her repentance and penitence. One iconography of Mary Magdalene depicts her as a hermit in the desert, after Christ's death; a seductive woman, not devoid of sensuality, her long, flowing hair covering her nakedness, she prays or meditates, with her usual attributes of repentance: skull, cross, biblical book...
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