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Miniature hand painted representing the portrait of Mary Magdalene * penitent holding a cross and a skull, eyes turned to the sky, in a carved wooden frame decorated with a knot, eighteenth century.
This miniature is in good condition. Old collection label on the back She is under glass.
A note: small slot on the thumbnail (bottom left, see red arrow), the left part of the frame node has been glued, wear time, see photos.
Mary Magdalene, Mary Magdalene or Madeleine, called Mary Magdalene in the Gospels is a follower of Jesus who follows him until his last days. The four Gospels designate her as the first witness of the Resurrection, who is charged to warn the apostles. Tradition and Christian iconography are based on these canonical texts and apocryphal to give several faces of Mary Magdalene, first the spiritual wife of Christ and the apostle of Revelation and from the fourth century the sinner denied and scorned but repented, the Middle Ages seizing many legends to make a saint. In sacred art, Mary Magdalene is very often depicted naked, with long and loose hair, to signify her repentance and penance. One of the iconographies of Mary Magdalene represents her as a hermit in the desert, after the death of Christ; attractive woman, not devoid of sensuality, a long undulating hair covering her nakedness, she prays or meditates, with her usual attributes of repentance, skull, cross, biblical book ...
