Mary Magdalene: Art's Scarlet Woman

Mary Magdalene: Art's Scarlet Woman (2017)

1h | Documentary | UK
7.0IMDb
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Waldemar Januszczak explores the influence of Magdalene's Mary mythology on art and artists. All saints in art are inventions, but they have never invented art saints as crazily as Mary Magdalene's wife. For a thousand years, artists from Caravaggio to Cezanne, Rubens to Rembrandt, Titian to van Gogh have devoted themselves to describing her and telling stories. Her identity has evolved from being a close follower of Jesus as the first witness of Jesus' resurrection to one of prostitutes and sinners, she fled the Holy Land, fled the Mediterranean, fled to live in the Mediterranean, and escaped persecution as a hermit in the south of France. enjoy the ecstatic experience with Christ.

Waldemar Januszczak explores the influence of Magdalene's Mary mythology on art and artists. All saints in art are inventions, but they have never invented art saints as crazily as Mary Magdalene's wife. For a thousand years, artists from Caravaggio to Cezanne, Rubens to Rembrandt, Titian to van Gogh have devoted themselves to describing her and telling stories. Her identity has evolved from being a close follower of Jesus as the first witness of Jesus' resurrection to one of prostitutes and sinners, she fled the Holy Land, fled the Mediterranean, fled to live in the Mediterranean, and escaped persecution as a hermit in the south of France. enjoy the ecstatic experience with Christ.