The Penitent Magdalene

ca. 1730 (Baroque)

90.8 cm 108.6 cm 7.6 cm

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Mary Magdalene is presented in Christian teaching as a beautiful prostitute who turned to Christ and rejected her former life of sin. From the 1500s through the 1800s, images of a penitent (regretful and self-chastising) Magdalene were very popular as a morally uplifting subje...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 276, as Rondoni]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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