Tag: The Penitent Magdalene

01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Titian’s The Penitent Magdalene, with Footnotes #209

Oct 2, 2023

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The subject of the penitent Mary Magdalene lifting her teary eyes to heaven gained great popularity in sixteenth-century Italy amongst aristocrats, religious figures and the wealthy middle class alike. Titian and his workshop created many copies and variations of this composition, at least seven of which are known today. This work is likely to have…
01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! from the SPANISH GOLDEN AGE, With Footnotes – 86

Mar 9, 2018

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Zaidan Art Blog

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Luis Tristán De Escamilla The Penitent Magdalene Private collection As the preeminent painter of his generation in Toledo, Tristán achieved an expressive intensity in his art that reconciled the extreme mannerism of El Greco, in whose workshop he had trained, with the strong naturalism of seventeenth-century tenebrist painting. The Penitent Magdalene is among the best…