National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Three Centuries of Italian Art
Guido RENI, Mary Magdalene [Maria Maddalena] unknown
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:01:30
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Synopsis
Reni dominated the Bolognese school in the 17th century and boasted he ‘could paint heads with their eyes uplifted a hundred different ways’ to express divine inspiration. Mary Magdalene in the grotto of St Baume devoted herself for 30 years in penance, living frugally on root vegetables.
