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Medieval Mary Magdalen

Oak

German, lower Rhine (Calcar)

ca. 1520

 

Dressed here in fashionable sixteenth-century costume and elaborate headdress, Mary Magdalen served as a saintly yet worldly exemplar for the medieval believer.

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art

NYC

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Uploaded on May 19, 2008