Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Penitent Magdalene
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Penitent Magdalene
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Alternate Title:
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Repentant Mary Magdalene
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Image View:
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Context view in gallery
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Creator:
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian painter, 1571-1610)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria Doria Pamphili (Rome, Lazio, Italy) FC 357
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Location Note:
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Via del Corso 305
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GPS:
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+41.897669+12.481145
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Date:
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ca. 1595 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Baroque
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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122.5 cm (height) x 98.5 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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New Testament; saints; still life; Mary Magdalene, Saint
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Description:
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Caravaggio effected in the Magdalene a radically prophetic decontextualization, at once modernizing (as seen in the tiled floor and the girl’s dress) and universalizing. The setting of a dim, bare chamber punctuated by light from an external source became the preferred existential space of his mature art (later done with greater contrast than seen here.) The saint has just renounced her former life; she has dropped a string of pearls and jewelry on the ground, next to a vial of unguent. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-C-GDP-RMM-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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