Tag: Ecstasy
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Caravaggio’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, with Footnotes #204
In his dramatic representation of the saint, Caravaggio has stripped away her traditional symbols such as the skull and the hourglass, and tells her story as a triad of intensely emotive contrasts: red, white and black. More on this painting Mary Magdalene, literally translated as Mary the Magdalene or Mary of Magdala, is a figure in…