A Renaissance (c. 1524) oil-on-panel painting depicting Mary Magdalene transferring ointment from a maiolica pharmacy jar to a smaller vessel. Now located at the Walter's Art Museum in Baltimore ...

Magdalene, appearing in scripture only fourteen times, belongs to a tangle of at least six women named Mary. This multitude of Marys leaves considerable room for disagreement over which Biblical ...

The story takes viewers to first century Galilee, where a young Mary Magdalene likely lived on her own in a small fishing village on the nearby sea. Some details about her life remain ambiguous.

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None of us can match up to that. In religion’s iconography of femininity there is another pole against which women are unfairly judged: Mary Magdalene. I do not mind admitting that I have been ...

Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy—a rare, once-lost canvas by the 17th-century Italian Baroque master Caravaggio—was on view for the first time in India. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, born in ...

With these questions in my mind, I read the description. The woman depicted in the painting, Mary Magdalene, was wrongly identified as a sinner who regretted her past, becoming “a symbol of ...

It was during Easter of 2020, in the middle of the pandemic lockdown, that I realized that Mary Magdalene had headed out to the tomb on that first Easter expecting only sorrow and sadness ...

It’s said that Caravaggio painted Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy in 1606 while holed up on the Neapolitan estates of the Colonna family. He was on the run with Pope Paul V having issued his death ...

Gov. Gen. Mary Simon will represent Canada at the funeral for Pope Francis at the Vatican on Saturday, says Prime Minister Mark Carney. “I’m not going to be attending the funeral, given the ...

The Ontario Liberals are calling for urgent action from the Ford government to tackle an ongoing measles outbreak in the province as the number of recorded cases passes 1,000. The latest data from ...