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 ...

Caravaggio's 'Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy', a masterpiece thought lost for centuries, has arrived in India. Unveiled at the ...

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 ...

Her head thrown back, lips parted as if in a sigh, fingers entangled in repentance, eyes half-closed and a tear rolling down ...