Created: around 1700 Material, technology: oil, ironplate covered with zinc Size: 19.5 x 14.5 cm Description: Tradition identified Mary Magdalene with the sister of Lazarus and Martha of Bethania, and with the sinful woman who anointed Christ’s feet with the expensive ointment. The legend says that she spent the last thirty years of her life in a cave. The Magdalene’s typical hand gesture is adopted from Tizian’s painting. The head pose, facial type of the woman shown in two-thirds and the cross next to her coincide with an etching made after a Hendrick Goltzius composition as its mirror image. The artist was probably a German or Netherlandish painter schooled in Venice, who worked around 1700. | |