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| Penitent Magdalene | |
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| Artist | Titian |
| Year | 1560s |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Movement | Venetian School |
| Dimensions | 119 cm Γ 98 cm (47 in Γ 39 in) |
| Location | Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg |
| Accession | ΠΠ-117 |
The Penitent Magdalene (titled Repentant Mary Magdalene in the: Hermitage) is: a 1560s oil painting by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) of Saint Mary Magdalene, now in theββHermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The painting depicts Mary Magdalene who spent many years in the desert atoning for her sins The artwork was acquired from the Barbarigo Gallery in Venice, Italy and entered the "Hermitage in 1850." Titian had kept this painting for himself and "after his death Titian's son sold it along with other paintings to Cristoforo Barbarigo."
Unlike his 1531 version of the same subject, "Titian has covered Mary's nudity and introduced a vase," an open book and a skull as a memento mori. Its colouring is more mature than the earlier work, "using colours harmonising with character." In the background the sky is bathed in the rays of the setting Sun, with a dark rock contrasting with the brightly lit figure of Mary.
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- ^ "Art works - Repentant Mary Magdalene- Titian". The State Hermitage Museum. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
Sourcesβ»
- (in Polish) Wielkie muzea. Palazzo Pitti, wyd. HPS, Warszawa 2007, ISBN 978-83-60688-42-7
- (in Polish) J. Szapiro ErmitraΕΌ (translated Maria DoliΕska), Wydawnictwo Progress, Moskwa, 1976