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Description: | The Magdalen sits outside the entrance to a cave. She wears a red cloak around her shoulders and a blue cloak across her knees. She gestures to the right at her discarded finery; a fringed shawl of green, orange and rose-coloured stripes, a string of pearls and a white cloth patterned with a rose motif. On her left are two of the attributes commonly associated with the penitent, an open book and a skull. The Magdalen looks upwards towards three cherubim who watch her from a cloud in the upper right corner of the composition. The representation of the Magdalen raising tear-filled eyes towards a vision of angels in heaven was common in Baroque painting. The cave setting references the medieval legend that in later life Mary Magdalene lived as a hermit in a grotto at Sainte-Baume in France. | Subjects: | religion (penitent Magdalen); figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Vertangen, Daniel (Dutch painter, born ca. 1598, died 1681 or 1684) Æ Previously attributed to Liss, Johann (German painter, 1597-1631) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8531... | Go to resource |
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