But whoever the woman now known as Mary Magdalene was, her depiction in the Christian Gospels and in religious and secular art has exerted an unusually powerful influence over the Western imagination.

TRADITIONALLY in Christian art, saints were represented by identifiable attributes ... Controversies and debates about her identity aside, Mary Magdalene was recognisable by her fundamental attributes ...

Waldemar Januszczak explores the impact of Mary Magdalene's myth on art and artists. All saints in art are inventions, but no saint in art has been invented quite as furiously as Mary Magdalene.

State of play: Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman accepted to the Florence Academy of Fine Art, painted the piece around 1625. It depicts Saint Mary Magdalene, a central figure in Christianity ...

Revisionist history, though, takes a turn for the improbable with Mary Magdalene: Christianity's Hidden Goddess, Lynn Picknett's overly speculative account of Mary as the ""secret"" goddess of the ...

Produced in conjunction with the citywide PhotoNOLA event this month, it is the hotel’s third annual juried art exhibition to focus on the figure of Mary Magdalene ... a god and goddess except ...

Magdalene is an effortless braiding of high-brow electronic art-pop, carnal soul music, and lurid modern dance. Photo: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Mary Magdalene is the New Testament’s ...

and how Mary Magdalene is portrayed in art. Show more After an awkward mix-up, Moonlight was eventually revealed as best picture at the Oscars. Critic Tim Robey discusses why it was a worthy ...

transformed the visual language of baroque art with his emotive realism and masterful technique, an example of which is evident in "Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy", painted while the artist was in ...