The painting resurfaced at auction in 2001 as a work by the artist's studio, and was recently identified as an original. Artemesia Gentileschi, Penitent Mary Magdalene (ca. 1625–26). Collection of the ...

Mary Magdalene had already been on my mind as a few weeks earlier I had read a long essay (‘Mistaking Mary Magdalene’, April ...

Martha and Mary Magdalene, by Old Master painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, circa 1598, oil and tempera on canvas. The painting is on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art from the Detroit ...

Georges de La Tour’s painting is a consummation devoutly to be wish’d In de La Tour’s imagining, she sits at a table supporting books of scripture, a candle and a whip or scourge (which Mary has been ...

Martha and Mary Magdalene, by Old Master painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, circa 1598, oil and tempera on canvas. The painting is on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art from the Detroit ...

It’s said that Caravaggio painted Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy in 1606 while holed up on the Neapolitan estates of the Colonna family. He was on the run with Pope Paul V having issued his death warrant in ...

Copy from Baroccio, at Florence. There is no more striking instance of man's devotion contained in scriptures than that of Mary Magdalene For Christ--out of whom he cast seven devils. While she was ...

A careful reader of the recent story on Caravaggio's masterpiece Martha and Mary Magdalene, on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art, took issue with the assertion that the two women in the painting were ...