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The Penitent Magdalene is a marble sculpture of Mary Magdalene by Antonio Canova, about 90 cm high, known in two final versions, now in Genoa and St Petersburg. Genoa. The difficulties in elaborating the theme had led Canova to produce two very different preparatory works.
Ocupação. escultor. Antonio Canova ( Possagno, 1 de novembro de 1757 – Veneza, 13 de outubro de 1822) foi um desenhista, pintor, antiquário e arquiteto italiano, mas é mais lembrado como escultor, desenvolvendo uma carreira longa e produtiva. Seu estilo foi fortemente inspirado na arte da Grécia Antiga.
- A Salon Sensation
- Commission and Reception
- The Legend of Mary Magdalene
- The Hermitage Version
- Legacy
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the great Neoclassical sculptor, left a truly prodigious body of work, much of it portraiture or mythological in subject matter or, not infrequently, as in Paolina Borghese as Venus Victorix and Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, a mixture of the two. Religious works by him are comparatively rare, though, the most celebrat...
The subject was commissioned by a Venetian churchman, Guiseppi Pruili, presumably for devotional purposes. In 1798 the work was sold and passed into the hands of Giovanni Sommariva, a flamboyant Italian politician who enjoyed a close relationship with Napoleon. Having made the purchase, he converted a room in his Parisian house specifically to acco...
A witness to the Entombment and the first to see Christ after the Resurrection, early theologians present Magdalene as the most devout of all of Christ’s followers and an important early Christian leader. In later years, although nowhere in the Bible does it say so, in art and literature she has conventionally been depicted as a repentant prostitut...
The sculpture proved so popular that a copy was commissioned, now in the Hermitage collection. For whatever reason, the gilt bronze cross is missing in this version and perhaps benefits from the omission, the upturned, empty palms evoking both Magdalene’s submission to the will of God and her sense of spiritual abandonment, aware that these hands, ...
Whether attributable to the beauty of the thing or to its historical importance, Canova’s Magdaleneresonated with the French public for years to come. Three decades on, for instance, we find her interceding for the souls of the damned in Henri Lemaire’s pediment sculpture for the Church of La Madeleine. Distinguished from the ‘saved’ whose bodies a...
1 de jan. de 2022 · The story of the perceived sinful woman named Mary Magdalene has been a very popular one in the world of art and she has been depicted by various sculptors and painters. Some artists who depicted this woman were Donatello, El Greco, and Caravaggio, to name just a few.
Antonio Canova, detail The Repentant Magdalene, c. 1794-96, marble and gilt bronze, height 94 cm, (Museo di Sant’Agostino, Genoa) A witness to the Entombment and the first to see Christ after the Resurrection, early theologians present Magdalene as the most devout of all of Christ’s followers and an important early Christian leader.
Penitent Magdalene. 1635 - 1640. Oil on canvas. Room 009. Mary Magdalene is depicted half-length, in a pensive and melancholy mood. She rests her head on a skull that symbolizes the brevity of earthly life. A jar of salve, her characteristic attribute, appears in the foreground.
19 de mar. de 2022 · Uma estátua esculpida pelo lendário artista italiano Antonio Canova em seu último ano de vida, permaneceu desaparecida por décadas, chamando atenção de especialistas não apenas quando foi encontrada, mas também pelo contexto da descoberta.
