Repentant Magdalena (Caravaggio)

Maddalena penitente - Repentant Magdalena -
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio , ca.1597
Oil on canvas
122.5 x 98.5 cm
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome

The repentant Magdalena (original title Maddalena penitente ) is a painted portrait of Caravaggio , which depicts the repentant Maria Magdalena (Mary from Magdala). It was created around 1597 (other sources give 1594–1595) and was painted with oil paints on canvas.

The painting is now in the Palazzo Pamphilj in Rome ( Galleria Doria Pamphilj ).

Scene / subject

St. Maria Magdalena Penitent is in her hiding place and sits slumped on a chair with her arms crossed. She is shown at the low point of her life of vice, which she is aware of here. Her belongings are on the floor next to it.

The woman who modeled for Caravaggio here is the same as in his painting Rest on the Flight into Egypt (around 1597).

Maria Magdalena was depicted in ecstasy by Caravaggio again in a later painting.

Web links

Commons : Penitent Magdalene by Caravaggio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stephen Moss: M by Peter Robb . In: The Guardian , February 9, 2000. Retrieved December 14, 2014. 

literature

• Mary D. Garrard: Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622: the shaping and reshaping of an artistic identity . University of California Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-520-22841-2 .
• Giulio Mancini (approx. 1617–1621) Considerazioni sulla pittura. Quoted in Howard Hibbard: Caravaggio . Westview Press, March 5, 1985, ISBN 978-0-06-430128-2 , p. 346 et seq.
• Kimberley Christine Patton, John Stratton Hawley: Holy tears: weeping in the religious imagination . Princeton University Press, July 5, 2005, ISBN 978-0-691-11444-6, (accessed December 24, 2014).
• Peter Robb : M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio . Macmillan, January 23, 2001, ISBN 978-0-312-27474-0 .
• Ingrid Drake Rowland: From heaven to Arcadia: the sacred and the profane in the Renaissance . New York Review of Books, 2005, ISBN 978-1-59017-123-3 .
• Hilary Spurling : The Other Michelangelo . In: The New York Times Book Reviews 2000 . Taylor & Francis, June 1, 2001 (first published March 5, 2000), ISBN 978-1-57958-058-2 , p. 396 et seq (accessed December 14, 2014).
• Carol Strickland, John Boswell: The annotated Mona Lisa: a crash course in art history from prehistoric to post-modern . Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1992, ISBN 978-0-8362-8005-0 (accessed December 14, 2014).
• John L. Varriano: Caravaggio: the Art of Realism . Penn State Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-271-02717-3, (Retrieved December 14, 2014).
• Genevieve Warwick: Caravaggio: Realism, Rebellion, Reception . University of Delaware Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-87413-936-5, (accessed December 14, 2014).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Patton and Hawley (2005), p. 219.