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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible by Ambrosius Benson, With Footnotes – 135

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Ambrosius Benson, Lombardy (?) late 15th century – before 1550 Bruges
Mary Magdalene holding an ointment jar
Oil on panel
27 by 19 1/2 in.; 68.6 by 49.5 cm.
Private collection

The Magdalene in this painting is more the elegant grand dame of her day than penitent saint. Her beautiful figure derives from one of the sibyls in Benson’s Deipara Virgo (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp). The design was evidently very popular as Benson used it on several occasions as a single sibyl, or as the Magdalene, either holding an ointment jar, as in this painting, or reading (See below). More on this painting…

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