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Date : near 1698
Material : Oil on canvas
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European Painting
Painting
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Italy
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A wealthy and profligate woman who became a devoted follower of Christ, Mary Magdalene later retired to the wilderness for a life of penance and mystic ecstasy. Here the flickering brushwork, exaggerated contrasts of light and dark, and abstracted drapery enveloping the saint express the tender yet intense religious sentiment common in Rome during the early 1700s. Rocca extracted the composition from one of his own altarpieces, which he reworked into a refined devotional painting.
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