The portrait of one of Jesus Christ's key followers was put up for sale by a London art gallery, where curators thought it had less than impressive provenance.

'Very dirty' portrait of Mary Magdalene which was sold by London gallery to French collector for just £30,000 is actually the work of Italian renaissance master Raphael ...

A Renaissance (c. 1524) oil-on-panel painting depicting Mary Magdalene transferring ointment from a maiolica pharmacy jar to a smaller vessel.

Raphael painted the portrait of the saint around 1503, when he was about 20. Experts say that Saint Mary Magdalene showcases the Italian Renaissance master’s early talent. “He was working with ...

Mary Magdalene portrait, controversially attributed to Raphael, is on view in the South of France since yesterday. About fifty enthusiastic spectators waited outside the basilica of Saint-Maximin ...

Eliza Griswold on Mary Magdalene, ... Around the year 1565, the Venetian Renaissance painter Titian updated the “Penitent Magdalene,” representing her as a zaftig figure with milky skin, ...

Mary Magdalene is one of the best-known figures in the Bible and has been a frequent inspiration to artists and writers over the last 2000 years. However, her identity has provoked much debate. In ...

She’s one of the most recognized figures in the Bible—and perhaps the most misunderstood. That might be why scholars just can’t quit chasing down the truth about Mary Magdalene.

Mary Magdalene may have been identified among the 300 tangled figures depicted in Michelangelo’s celebrated Sistine Chapel masterpiece after a centuries-long hunt.. Sara Penco, an Italian art ...

MARY MAGDALENE’s long-flowing hair refers to the part she plays as anointer and repentant adulteress. Hair in its condition, colour, and style was an emblem of physical, spiritual, and societal ...

Almond, Philip C. Mary Magdalene: ... Simon Ditchfield, and Howard Louthan, eds. Sacred History: Uses of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World. Oxford University Press, 2012.