The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, a 1606 painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, is as fascinating for its intriguing history as for its style. Painted by the Italian Baroque artist towards the ...

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 ...

My generation of Irish women came of age through inquiries and scandals. Many of these bore an individual’s name: Savita ...