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The Penitent Magdalene
about 1550 · tela/ pittura a olio (oil on canvas) · Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples
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Saint Mary Magdalene looks up, and the rims of her eyes are red. One hand is pressed flat to her breast; the other holds a striped cloak at her waist. Below her an open book lies across a skull, and at the left stands a small jar. Google Arts & Culture, presenting the canvas for Capodimonte, reads the ampoule, the skull and the open scriptures as symbols of her repentance, and says the tears roll down her cheeks. Titian lettered his name in the dark above the jar. The Italian state catalogue dates the work about 1550 and holds that it may be the Magdalene Titian sent to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese in Rome in 1547; it was in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, passed to Parma, and came to Naples with Charles of Bourbon in 1734. Saint Luke tells of the woman at Christ's feet who “began to wash his feet, with tears” and only afterward “anointed them with the ointment” (Luke 7:38). Here the jar waits at the side and the tears come first; He takes ours the same way.
Sources: Ministero della Cultura, Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali, 'Maddalena', scheda 1500625120 (ente competente: Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte), read 2026-10-10. · Google Arts & Culture, 'The Penitent Magdalene', Titian, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, read 2026-10-10. · Luke 7:38, Douay-Rheims (Challoner), as already verified in this record's scene block from data/bible_drc.js
And standing behind at his feet. she began to wash his feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.
Luke 7:38 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)