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- Ascribed to Lo Spagna (1450 - 1532)
- The Ecstasy of Saint Mary Magdalene
- Italy
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- Date: c. 1500 - 1520
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Tempera on paper on beech panel
- Image size: 35.3 x 27.5 cm
- Object size: Made up to, 37.5 x 29.7 cm
- Inv: P545
- Location: Not on display
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- According to the Gospels Saint Mary Magdalene, a repentant courtesan, was called by Christ whose Crucifixion she witnessed. Later her life-story was elaborated in medieval French legend, which recounted how she passed thirty years in penance, without food or clothing, in a solitary mountain retreat near Sainte-Baume. Seven times a day angels came down and lifted her up to heaven where she saw a vision of the celestial bliss prepared for the repentant sinner. She is traditionally depicted, naked but for her long hair, floating to heaven in a devotional posture with a crown symbolizing her victory over sin and death.