The Repentant Magdalene (Cagnacci) Explained

The Repentant Magdalene
Other Language 1:Italian
Other Title 1:La Maddalena penitente
Artist:Guido Cagnacci
Medium:Oil on canvas
Height Metric:229.2
Width Metric:266.1
Metric Unit:cm
Imperial Unit:in
Museum:Norton Simon Museum
City:Pasadena

The Repentant Magdalene, also called The Conversion of Mary Magdalene, is an oil painting of the early 1660s by the Baroque Italian painter Guido Cagnacci. It shows Mary Magdalene, beside her remonstrating sister Martha, at the moment she repents, echoed by an allegorical pairing of Virtue, an angel, chasing out Vice, a devil. The painting is at the collection of the Norton Simon Museum, in Pasadena.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Provenance

The painting's owners have been:

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Repentant Magdalene . . 12 March 2017.
  2. Book: The Art of Guido Cagnacci . Salomon, Xavier F. . 2017 . Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd . 94–100 . 978-1785510571.
  3. Web site: Cagnacci's Repentant Magdalene: An Italian Baroque Masterpiece from the Norton Simon Museum . . November 2016 . 12 March 2017.
  4. Web site: Cagnacci's Masterpiece The Repentant Magdalene Comes to the Frick this Fall . . 12 March 2017.