Emiliana School of the seventeenth century
Magdalene
Oil on canvas
83×110 cm
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Francesco Hayez, VENISE 1791 - 1882 MILAN
PENITENT MAGDALENE AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS
OIL ON CANVAS
119,5 x 75,5 cm ; 47 by 29 ¾ in
Private collection
Sold for 60,000 EUR in May 2016
Francesco Hayez (10 February 1791 – 21 December 1882) was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits. More
Jan Polack (1435–1519)
Ascension of Mary Magdalene, c. 1500
Mixed media on spruce
85x68 cm
Unknown Location
She wears her red hair uncombed and open. Willing to pray, the young woman holds her hands in front of her chest and her hair-covered body: the artist Jan Polack drew St. Mary Magdalene with these distinctive features in 1505. What at first glance appears to be a fur coat turns out to be a lot of body hair, almost fur, on closer inspection of the late Gothic panel painting. Only the saint's face, neck, hands and breasts are free of curly down. More on this painting
Jan Polack Johannes Po(l)lack (between 1435 and 1450 – 1519) was a 15th-century painter.
From his nickname it is assumed that he might have been born and/or worked in Kraków. From the mid-1470s on, he lived and worked in Munich, having previously been in Franconia. He may have taken part in the 1475 festival of the Landshut Wedding of Jadwiga Jagiellon and George of Bavaria. In 1480, he opened his own shop in Munich, where he remained until his death.
Starting in 1482, he is listed on the tax records of Munich, also as leader of the local painter guild. He visited with Michael Wohlgemuth and his art was influenced by him and by that of Veit Stoss and Hans Pleydenwurff as well as by collaboration with the woodcutter Erasmus Grasser.
Documents mention many works of his which are now lost. His most important remaining work is the Weihenstephan altarpiece (1483–1485), now at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. More on Jan Polack
Alexandre Cabanel, 1823 - 1889
MARY MAGDALENE AT THE TOMB, c. 1875
Oil on canvas
35 3/4 by 29 1/2 in., 90.8 by 74.9 cm
Private collection
Sold for 225,000 USD on May 2016
Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter born in Montpellier, Hérault. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier and Napoleon III's preferred painter.
Cabanel entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen, and studied with François-Édouard Picot. He exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1844, and won the Prix de Rome scholarship in 1845 at the age of 22. Cabanel was elected a member of the Institute in 1863. He was appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1864 and taught there until his death.
He was closely connected to the Paris Salon: "He was elected regularly to the Salon jury and his pupils could be counted by the hundred. Through them, Cabanel did more than any other artist of his generation to form the character of belle époque French painting". His refusal together with William-Adolphe Bouguereau to allow the impressionist painter Édouard Manet and many other painters to exhibit their work in the Salon of 1863 led to the establishment of the Salon des Refusés by the French government. Cabanel won the Grande Médaille d'Honneur at the Salons of 1865, 1867, and 1878. More on Alexandre Cabanel
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610)
Magdalen in Ecstasy, c. 1606
Oil on canvas
106.5 × 91 cm (41.9 × 35.8 in)
Private Collection
Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy (1606) is a painting by the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). There exists in at least eighteen copies, of which this version has been claimed as the most likely original. The painting was done in the few months following Caravaggio's flight from Rome after the death of Ranuccio Tommassoni on 29 May 1606, while he was in hiding on the estates of his protectors, the powerful Colonna family, and where the primary sources for his life record him painting a Magdalen.
This revolutionary naturalistic interpretation of the legend also allowed him to capture the ambiguous parallel between mystical and erotic love, in Mary's semi-reclining posture and bared shoulder. The painting was immensely influential for future treatment of the theme by artists such as Rubens and Simon Vouet (who adopted Carvaggio's earth-bound Magdalen but reintroduced the angels), and of course Bernini and his celebrated Ecstasy of St Theresa. More on this painting
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 in Caravaggio – 18 July 1610) was an Italian painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1592 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on Baroque painting.
Caravaggio trained as a painter in Milan under Simone Peterzano who had himself trained under Titian. In his twenties Caravaggio moved to Rome where there was a demand for paintings to fill the many huge new churches and palazzos being built at the time. It was also a period when the Church was searching for a stylistic alternative to Mannerism in religious art that was tasked to counter the threat of Protestantism. Caravaggio's innovation was a radical naturalism that combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical, use of chiaroscuro which came to be known as tenebrism (the shift from light to dark with little intermediate value).
He gained attention in the art scene of Rome in 1600 with the success of his first public commissions, the Martyrdom of Saint Matthew and Calling of Saint Matthew. Thereafter he never lacked commissions or patrons, yet he handled his success poorly. He was jailed on several occasions, vandalized his own apartment, and ultimately had a death sentence pronounced against him by the Pope after killing a young man, possibly unintentionally, on May 29, 1606. He fled from Rome with a price on his head. He was involved in a brawl in Malta in 1608, and another in Naples in 1609, possibly a deliberate attempt on his life by unidentified enemies. This encounter left him severely injured. A year later, at the age of 38, he died under mysterious circumstances in Porto Ercole in Tuscany, reportedly from a fever while on his way to Rome to receive a pardon.
Famous while he lived, Caravaggio was forgotten almost immediately after his death, and it was only in the 20th century that his importance to the development of Western art was rediscovered. More on Caravaggio
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
S. Mary Magdalene in Extasy, c. between 1619 and 1620
Oil on canvas
Height: 295 cm (116.1 in). Width: 220 cm (86.6 in).
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
According to a legend popular in Caravaggio's time, after Christ's death his faithful female disciple Mary of Magdala moved to southern France, where she lived as a hermit in a cave at Sainte-Baume near Aix-en-Provence. There she was transported seven times a day by angels into the presence of God, "where she heard, with her bodily ears, the delightful harmonies of the celestial choirs." More on this painting
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish Baroque painter. A proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, Rubens is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.
In addition to running a large studio in Antwerp that produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically educated humanist scholar and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England. Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Bernardino Campi (1522 - 1590)
Mary Magdalene
Oil on canvas
Height: 665 mm (26.18 in). Width: 572 mm (22.52 in).
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Bernardino Campi (1522–1591) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Reggio Emilia, who worked in Cremona. In Cremona, his extended family were the main artistic studios. Giulio Campi and Antonio Campi, half-brothers, were distant relatives of Bernardino; the latter is generally considered the most talented of the family. All were active and prominent painters locally. Influences on Bernardino's are likely diverse, including those from local Cremonese such as Camillo Boccaccino, to artists from neighboring regions such as Correggio, Parmigianino and Giulio Romano.
Bernardino was commissioned by Vespasiano Gonzaga to lead a team of artists including Pietro Martire Pesenti in the interior decoration, including frescoes by Bernardino, of the Palazzo del Giardino in Sabbioneta, near Mantua.
Among his pupils were Giovanni Antonio Morandi (active 1585), Andrea Mainardi, and Pietro Martire Pesenti, both active in the Palazzo of Guastalla. More on Bernardino Campi
Roman School, 18th century
THE PENITENT MAGDALENE
oil on canvas, unframed
48.5 by 65.2 cm.; 19 1/4 by 25 5/8 in
Private collection
Sold for 2,750 GBP in October 2015
The Roman School of Italian painting was important from the mid-15th to the late 19th century.
Both Michelangelo and Raphael worked in Rome, making it the centre of High Renaissance; in the 17th century Rome was the centre of the Baroque movement represented by Bernini and Pietro da Cortona. From the 17th century the presence of classical remains drew artists from all over Europe including Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Giovanni Paolo Pannini and Anton Raphael Mengs. In the 17th century Italian art was diffused mainly from Rome, the indisputable centre of the Baroque.
Caravaggio brought about the greatest pictorial revolution of the century. His imposing compositions, deliberately simplified, are remarkable for their rigorous sense of reality and for the contrasting light falling from one side that accentuates the volumes. He changed from small paintings of genre and still-life, clear in light and cool in colour, to harsh realism, strongly modelled volumes and dramatic light and shade. His work, like his life, caused much scandal and excited international admiration. More on The Roman School
Unknown artist
Mary Magdalene in the desert
Carved basswood panel
H 44 L 31.7 cm × 1
I have no further description, at this time
Sold for €3,828 EUR on June, 2015
Style of this panel, deeply worked, can attach the so-called school of sculpture of the Danube. Place aucadre devolved natural scene with tree trunks visible roots, rocks, a rugged surface is a predominant effect and plays an essential role in the representation of the subject. The sculptor has built a "window" into the natural environment of the sant, half-opening into a distant landscape.
Many painters, printmakers and sculptors of the Danube Region, were followers of the master of Regensburg, and were left free rein to their imagination by giving this invasive vegetation presence. The fantastic character that the works of this school give nature later inspired the German Romantics. More on this work
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Thank you, Henry, for an interesting art history article.
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