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2 hours agoUS National Gallery of Art acquires important Artemisia Gentileschi painting
The painting depicts the titular saint, her face turned upward, "going through the throes of change from a secular life to one of devotion", says the curator. Shown without her usual attributes of a skull or an ointment jar, or any other signs of penitence, Mary Magdalene is instead depicted in a state of near undress, a shoulder provocatively exposed.
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