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DOI Artikel:Murawska-Muthesius, Katarzyna; Secomska, Krystyna: Mary Magdalen, the counter reformation and the Caravaggisti: are there any more paintings by Antiveduto Gramatica in Poland?
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8. Caravaggio, The conversion
of the Magdalen, c. Ì 598/9,
Detroit Institute of Art, Gift of
the Kresage Foundotion and
Mrs. Edsel B. Ford (Phot, of
the Detroit Institute of Art)
onwards.35 They portrayed in vivid colour the episodes of the Magdalen’s
mondanità, when, turning a blind eye to her sister’s positive example, she led
the notorious life of a courtesan, being beautiful, rich, and totally possessed by
the vanities of the world. Her conversion is described there as either the effect
of a sermon by Christ, or as the result of Martha’s preaching about his miracles
and the Magdalen’s indecency, and it is at this point that the scene of the sisters’
dialogue enters literary and popular tradition.36 Although there are quite
a number of medieval illustrations which record the Magdalen’s Weltleben, her
love for the luxuries of the world, rich dresses, parties, falcon hunting, and
35 Descriptions of the Magdalen’s Weltleben played important part in the 13th century Benediktbeuren
Passion Play, in the 15th century Mystère de la Passion by jean Michel, in the Latin legend
Conversio beatae Mariae Magdalenae, or in the French poem la Vie Fuit in Jherusalenv, on the literary
traditions, see H. Hansel, Die Maria-Magdalena-Legende.Eine Quellen-Untersuchung, Greifswald
1937; H.M. Garth, Saint Mary Magdalen in Medieval Literature, Baltimore 1950; M.M. Malvern,
Venus in Sackcloth, The Magdalene’s Origins and Metamorphoses, Carbondale, Illinois 1975; in part,
pp.71-113; C.E.C.M. van den Wildenborg-de Kroon, Das Weltleben und die Bekehrung der Maria
Magdalena in Deutschen Religiösen Drama und in der bildenden Kunst des Mittelalters, Amsterdam
1979; J.R. Kane, “Mary of Magdala: The Evolution of her Role in Medieval Drama”, Studi
medievali, XXVI, 1985, pp.677-684; Sainte Amante de Dieu. Anthologie des poèmes héroïques du
XVIIe siècle français consacrés à la Madeleine, ed. by S.de Reyff, Fribourg 1989.
36 See, Malvern, Venus in Sackcloth..., op. cit., pp.110-111; van den Wildenborg-de Kroon, Das
Weltleben..., op. cit., pp.93-99; “Kane, “Mary of Magdala...”, op. cit. , pp.679-683.
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of the Magdalen, c. Ì 598/9,
Detroit Institute of Art, Gift of
the Kresage Foundotion and
Mrs. Edsel B. Ford (Phot, of
the Detroit Institute of Art)
onwards.35 They portrayed in vivid colour the episodes of the Magdalen’s
mondanità, when, turning a blind eye to her sister’s positive example, she led
the notorious life of a courtesan, being beautiful, rich, and totally possessed by
the vanities of the world. Her conversion is described there as either the effect
of a sermon by Christ, or as the result of Martha’s preaching about his miracles
and the Magdalen’s indecency, and it is at this point that the scene of the sisters’
dialogue enters literary and popular tradition.36 Although there are quite
a number of medieval illustrations which record the Magdalen’s Weltleben, her
love for the luxuries of the world, rich dresses, parties, falcon hunting, and
35 Descriptions of the Magdalen’s Weltleben played important part in the 13th century Benediktbeuren
Passion Play, in the 15th century Mystère de la Passion by jean Michel, in the Latin legend
Conversio beatae Mariae Magdalenae, or in the French poem la Vie Fuit in Jherusalenv, on the literary
traditions, see H. Hansel, Die Maria-Magdalena-Legende.Eine Quellen-Untersuchung, Greifswald
1937; H.M. Garth, Saint Mary Magdalen in Medieval Literature, Baltimore 1950; M.M. Malvern,
Venus in Sackcloth, The Magdalene’s Origins and Metamorphoses, Carbondale, Illinois 1975; in part,
pp.71-113; C.E.C.M. van den Wildenborg-de Kroon, Das Weltleben und die Bekehrung der Maria
Magdalena in Deutschen Religiösen Drama und in der bildenden Kunst des Mittelalters, Amsterdam
1979; J.R. Kane, “Mary of Magdala: The Evolution of her Role in Medieval Drama”, Studi
medievali, XXVI, 1985, pp.677-684; Sainte Amante de Dieu. Anthologie des poèmes héroïques du
XVIIe siècle français consacrés à la Madeleine, ed. by S.de Reyff, Fribourg 1989.
36 See, Malvern, Venus in Sackcloth..., op. cit., pp.110-111; van den Wildenborg-de Kroon, Das
Weltleben..., op. cit., pp.93-99; “Kane, “Mary of Magdala...”, op. cit. , pp.679-683.
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