Penitent Magdalene (El Greco) Explained

Penitent Magdalene
Artist:	El Greco
Year:	1576–1578
Medium:	oil on canvas
Height Metric:	164
Width Metric:	121
Museum:	National Museum of Fine Arts
City:	Budapest

Penitent Magdalene is a 1576–1578 painting by El Greco depicting Mary Magdalene, produced during his first period in Toledo and showing the major influence of Titian on him at that time.^[1] It is now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.

Variants

A c. 1577 version is now in the Worcester Art Museum, whilst a later c.1580–1585 version is in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.^[2] A different composition on the subject from 1585–1590 is in the Cau Ferrat Museum.

See also

• List of works by El Greco

References

1. Scholz, pag. 26.
2. Web site: The Penitent Magdalene. European Collection. Nelson-Atkins Museum

Bibliography

• ÁLVAREZ LOPERA, José, El Greco, Madrid, Arlanza, 2005, Biblioteca «Descubrir el Arte», (colección «Grandes maestros»).
• SCHOLZ-HÄNSEL, Michael, El Greco, Colonia, Taschen, 2003.

External links

• Web site: Santa María Magdalena. https://web.archive.org/web/20120204060258/http://www.artehistoria.jcyl.es/genios/cuadros/6306.htm. 2012-02-04. Spanish.