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Description: | The repentant sinner Mary Magdalene always provided artists with opportunities to celebrate physical beauty and sexuality under the guise of holiness. The pearls set aside symbolise the worldly pleasures she has rejected while the book, skull and her reflective pose refer to her repentance, awareness of mortality and the need for redemption. The title of this work, A Magdalene, implies that this could be any repentant fallen woman. | Subjects: | religion (St Mary Magdalene) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8684... | Go to resource |
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