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A woman, draped in a loose white robe, leans back, eyes almost closed, mouth slightly parted, a single teardrop escapes her eye. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy—a rare, once-lost canvas by the 17th ...

Light and shadow dance across her white and red robes, her ears, and hands—hallmarks of the artist’s skilful chiaroscuro. This is Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, a painting recently attributed to ...

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“The strength of Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy is profoundly generated by the position of the body (diagonal line from bottom left to upper right). The redand-white drape, the hands and the hair ...

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whom he painted in contemporary dress. Original or not, it’s no small feat that roughly 400 years after this work was painted, it translates Mary Magdalene’s ecstasy – her absorption ...