The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene

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The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene

Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5

Date
1501–4
Medium
woodcut
Culture
England, early 16th Century
Department
Prints
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
120675

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Dürer’s woodcut of Mary Magdalene represents a popular subject in German art and is considered a schlechtes Holzwerk, a simple woodcut intended for a general audience. According to a medieval book of saints’ lives known as the Golden Legend, Mary Magdalene spent the last 30 years of her life as a hermit outside of Marseilles, France, where she was miraculously borne aloft to heaven seven times a day to hear the choir of angels. Considered a fallen woman in her early life, Mary earned redemption through her complete devotion to Christ. During this period, Dürer was preoccupied with the laws of human proportion and the female figure. Mary Magdalene’s powerful legs and widened hips are comparable to the female nudes in Dürer’s The Dream of the Doctor and Adam and Eve.

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Credit line
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
Provenance
with Richard H. Zinser, New York | Leonard C. Hanna Jr. | 1941: Gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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