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Mary Magdalene Borne Aloft

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Italian Illuminator · 1479–1479

Taddeo Crivelli was one of the illuminators who introduced the Renaissance style into manuscript painting in Ferrara. His first known miniatures date to the early 1450s. In the period roughly coinciding with the rule of Borso d'Este over Ferrara, Crivelli and his workshop were engaged in a number of projects, producing a variety of books for aristocratic patrons as well as for religious institutio

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Date: about 1469
Medium: Tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and ink
Culture: Italian
Department: Manuscripts
Institution: Getty Museum

While angels carry her toward heaven, Mary Magdalene prays, naked save for the covering of her abundant hair. According to *The* *Golden Legend* , a popular medieval compilation of saints' lives, the former sinner repented of her ways and retired to the wilderness outside of Marseilles in France after Jesus' Crucifixion. While living as a hermit there, "every day at the seven canonical hours she was carried aloft by angels and with her bodily ears heard the glorious chants of the celestial hosts."

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