Mary magdalene

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…

This post was originally published at Parabola.org on January 29, 2015. It is amazing that something so tiny could pack such a punch. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene is tantalizingly brief—and, frustratingly, two major sections are missing, reducing the original seventeen manuscript pages by more than half. Yet what remains is more than enough to radically overturn […]

Oil painting of Mary Magdalene by Antonio Ciseri

“The skull of Mary Magdalene in St Maximin Basilica in France”

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St. Mary Magdalene, pray for us! Crucifixion with Mary Magdalene kneeling and weeping, Francesco Hayez (1827).

The possibility of Mary Magdalene being black and of Ethiopian lineage is plausible according to extensive research by Bettye Johnson, author of Secrets of the Magdalene Scrolls and an Independent Publisher Book Award 2006 winner.

Georges de la Tour lived in the XVI – XVII cent., a remarkable figure of French Baroque. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

Edouard Kasparides, (1858-1926 Austrian) Detail; The penitent Mary Magdalene in the cave, c. 1890 Oil on canvas 45.5" H x 67" W Private collection Edouard Kasparides, (1858-1926 Austrian) The penitent Mary Magdalene in the cave, c. 1890 Oil on canvas 45.5" H x 67" W Private collection The penitent Mary Magdalene was a sinner, perhaps a courtesan, Mary Magdalen was a witness of Christ who renounced the pleasures of the flesh for a life of penance and contemplation. Penitent Magdalene or…