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Penitent Magdalene (Artemisia Gentileschi)

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Painting by Artemisia Gentileschi

Pentitent Magdalene
ArtistArtemisia Gentileschi
Year1622-1625
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions122 cm × 96 cm (48 in × 38 in)
LocationSeville Cathedral, Seville

Penitent Magdalene is a painting by the Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi. It hangs in Seville Cathedral. It has probably been in the cathedral since the late 17th century. She returned to the subject later in the 1620s in Mary Magdalene as Melancholy.

Provenance

The painting's first home was the collection of Fernando Enriquez Afan de Ribera, the 3rd Duke of Alcala, from 1626 to 1637. He purchased the painting in Rome while he was ambassador to the Holy See during 1625-1626. In 1626, he became viceroy of Naples, and then later returned to Seville in 1631.

See also

References

  1. ^ Christiansen & Mann 2001, p. 365.
  2. Bissell 1999, p. 222.
  3. Bissell 1999, p. 223.

Sources

  • Bissell, R. Ward (1999). Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art : Critical Reading and Catalogue Raisonné. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271017877.
  • Christiansen, Keith; Mann, Judith Walker (2001). Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi. New York; New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press. ISBN 1588390063.
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