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              MARY  MAGDALENE  

 

If I were choosing a woman from the New Testament to be the next President of the US,  I'd certainly go with Mary Magdalene - not the long-haired redhead ex-raver shown in some of the later medieval paintings below, but the real Mary Magdalene, an astute Jewish businesswoman who, when the chips were down, stood by her principles - she was loyal to what she believed in, so you'd feel you could trust her.   

   
                          

                                
 

'St Mary Magdalene'
All Saints Orthodox Church
Manhattan

Pietro Lorenzetti
 'St Mary Magdalene'

  
 

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Duccio di Buoninsegna
 'Noli me tangere', 1308-11

 

Fra Angelico 
'Noli Me Tangere'

 
 

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Fra Angelico
'Resurrection of Christ and Women at the Tomb'
Fresco, 1440-1441
Convent of San Marco, Florence

 

Matthias Grunewald 
Isenheim Altarpeice 		 
 

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  Rogier van der Weyden 
'The Deposition'

 

Carel de Mallery Antwerp engraving late1500s

  
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Anonymous, early 15th century
Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene

Hans Fries of Fribourg
St. Mary Magdalene 
Stained glass, circa 1500

 

 
 

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  Mary Magdalene
Inlaid woods

 

 Bernardino Luini
Mary Magdalene 		 
 

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  John Gossaert
Mary Magdalene
Circa 1525-30

 

 Jan Van Scorel 
'Magdalene'
 		 
 

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  Raphael
Mary Magdalene

   Gian Girolamo Savoldo
  'Mary Magdalene Approaching the Tomb'
1535-40

 

 
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  Giovanni Bellini 
'The Virgin and Child with St Catherine and Mary Magdalene' 		Giovanni Bellini
     Detail from 'The Virgin and      Child with St Catherine and Mary Magdalene'

 

  
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  Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)
Magdalene
1530 		Rubens
'Christ and Mary Magdalene'

 

  
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  George de la Tour
'Repenting Magdalene'
1635 		George de la Tour
'Repenting Magdalene'
late 1630's

 

  
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  Correggio 
'Noli Me Tangere' 		Alonso del Arco 
'Mary Magdalene Removing her Jewelry'

 

  
 

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El Greco
'Mary Magdalene in Penitence with a Crucifix'
1585

Louis Finsonius
Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene


 
 

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Repentant Mary Magdalene  
Canova, Antonio
Italy. 1809

According to legend, Mary Magdalene repented after meeting Christ and spent many years in the desert, where she lamented her past sins. In keeping with tradition, Canova shows the Magdalene as a young woman dressed as a hermit. The skull at her feet signifies the inevitability of death. Mary once held a cross, symbol of the Crucifixion. She is grief-stricken, helpless.

Born into a family of stonemasons, Canova mastered the art of working with marble. The polished marble of the Magdalene's body and the shining surface of the skull contrast with the roughly worked rock of the base.

 

 
 

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AlexanderIvanov
'Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene'

 		 Dante Gabriel Roselli
'Magdalene' 		 
 

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Jules Joseph Lefebvre 
'Mary Magdalene in the Cave'
1876

Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys
'Mary Magdalene'  
Circa 1860

 

  
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Adolpe Bouguereau
'Women at the Tomb'

 

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene 
at the Empty Tomb

 

 
 

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He Qi
'Mary Magdalene'

He Qi
'Women Arriving at the Tomb'

 

 

  
 

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Bedouin Girl
Photographer unknown
Circa 1910

 

Mel Gibson's film
'The Passion of the Christ'

 

  
 

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  Mary Charles McGough, O.S.B.
Mary Magdalene Announces the Resurrection

 

 

  
 

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William Hobman Hunt
'Christ Appearing the Mary Magdalene'