Penitent magdalene

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The French academic painter Hugues Merle gained acclaim during his lifetime for his idealised depictions of family life and of historical and religious subjects. He was often associated with his friend and rival, William-Adolphe Bouguereau; in fact, their shared dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, urged Bouguereau to add to his pictorial repertoire Merle's interpretation of familial love, which had defined his most successful Salon entries during the 1840s through the 1960s. Whether imaging modern-day…

The recently discovered Chinon Parchment of the Vatican Library in 2001 has brought a level of redemption to the Knights Templar. It does not discount their “heretical” activities, which were entirely gnostic in nature and reveal Johannite and Sufi influences on the Knights. But it does absolve them of these “crimes.”

‘Magdalene in penitence’ was created in 1635 by Guido Reni in Baroque style. Find more prominent pieces of religious painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

Caravaggio - Penitent Magdalene

Vanitas became a popular genre of Dutch master paintings in the seventeenth century. It utilized the still-life form to evoke the fleeting quality of life and the vanity of living.

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The penitent Magdalene by Mateo Cerezo (1637-1666), private collection. Auctioned at Sotheby's on December 4, 2008. Dimensiones: 110 x 88.5 cm (43 1/4 by 34 7/8 in.) Oil on canvas.

Penitent Magdalene is a painting by the Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi. It hangs in Seville Cathedral. It has probably been in the cathedral since the late 17th century. [1] She returned to the subject later in the 1620s in Mary Magdalene as Melancholy.

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