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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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13. Antiveduto Gramotica,
The Mourning Magdalen,
Trafalgar Galleries, London,
1976, (Phot, after In the
Light of Caravaggio op. cit.)
In a painting attributed to Gramatica and exhibited in the Trafalgar Gallery
in London in 1976,66 a lonely figure of the mourning Magdalen, sitting beside
a table and contemplating a flickering candle (Fig. 13), could be a referrence
to the third image in the Italian woodcut, in which the Magdalen, having
heard the sermon of Christ, repents her sins in the privacy of her room. This
66 In the Light of Caravaggio, exhib.cat., Trafalgar Galleries, London 1976, pp.51-52; Papi,
Antiveduto Gramatica, op. cit., no. 4.
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The Mourning Magdalen,
Trafalgar Galleries, London,
1976, (Phot, after In the
Light of Caravaggio op. cit.)
In a painting attributed to Gramatica and exhibited in the Trafalgar Gallery
in London in 1976,66 a lonely figure of the mourning Magdalen, sitting beside
a table and contemplating a flickering candle (Fig. 13), could be a referrence
to the third image in the Italian woodcut, in which the Magdalen, having
heard the sermon of Christ, repents her sins in the privacy of her room. This
66 In the Light of Caravaggio, exhib.cat., Trafalgar Galleries, London 1976, pp.51-52; Papi,
Antiveduto Gramatica, op. cit., no. 4.
124