Saint Mary Magdalen Holding A Crucifix is a painting by Spinello Aretino which was uploaded on February 8th, 2017.
Saint Mary Magdalen Holding A Crucifix
Painted on both sides, this extremely rare work was commissioned about 1395-1400 by the Confraternity of Saint Mary Magdalen in Borgo San Sepolcro... more
Title
Saint Mary Magdalen Holding A Crucifix
Artist
Spinello Aretino
Medium
Painting - Tempera On Canvas, Gold Ground
Description
Painted on both sides, this extremely rare work was commissioned about 1395-1400 by the Confraternity of Saint Mary Magdalen in Borgo San Sepolcro and would have been carried in religious processions. On one side the hooded members of the confraternity kneel before their patron saint. On the reverse is the Flagellation of Christ--a reminder of the penitential practices members would have performed. Laymen often joined religious confraternities for communal devotions and charitable acts. Their hooded robes rendered such acts anonymous, in conformity with Christ's injunction that good works should not be done for vain praise.The face of Christ is a photographic facsimile of the original painted face, which was detached in the nineteenth century and is now in the Camposanto Teutonico, Rome.
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February 8th, 2017
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