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Massijs, Quinten --- Mary Magdalene

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"This innovative and multidisciplinary collection visits representations and interpretations of Mary Magdalene in the medieval and early modern periods, questioning major scholarly assumptions behind the examination of female saints and their depictions in medieval artworks, literature, and music. Mary Magdalene's many and various characterizations from reformed prostitute to conversion-figure to devotee of Christ to "apostle to the apostles" to spiritual advisor to the Prince of Marseilles to hermit in the desert, to list just a few examples, mean that the many conflicted representations of Mary Magdalene apply to a staggering variety of cultural material, including art, liturgy, music, literature, theology, hagiography, and the historical record. Furthermore, Mary Magdalene has grown into an extremely popular and controversial figure due to recent books and movies concerning her, and due to a groundswell of general speculation concerning her relationship to Jesus: was she his acquaintance, follower, companion, wife, family-member, or lover? This volume employs a broad spectrum of theoretical methodologies in order to present poststructuralist, postcolonial, postmodernist, hagiographic, and feminist readings of the figure of Mary Magdalene, addressing and interrogating her conflicting roles and the precise relationship between her sacred and secular representations." --

Thematology --- Iconography --- Mary Magdalene --- anno 500-1499 --- Mary Magdalene, --- In literature --- 225-055.2 --- Vrouwen in het Nieuwe Testament --- Maddalena, --- Madeleine, --- Magdaghinē, --- Magdalene, --- Maria Maddalena, --- Maria Magdalena, --- Mariam Magdaghenatsʻi, --- Marie Madeleine, --- Mary Magdalen, --- In literature. --- 225-055.2 Vrouwen in het Nieuwe Testament --- Maryam al-Majdalīyah, --- Maria Magdalena --- Mary Magdalene, - Saint --- Mary Magdalene, - Saint - In literature --- Mary Magdalene, - Saint - Art

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sculpture [visual works] --- restorative processes and techniques --- technical art history --- Donatello --- Mary Magdalene

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Examining innovations in Mary Magdalene imagery in northern art 1430 to 1550, Penny Jolly explores how the saints widespread popularity drew upon her ability to embody oppositions and embrace a range of paradoxical roles: sinner-prostitute and saint, erotic seductress and holy prophet. Analyzing paintings by Rogier van der Weyden, Quentin Massys, and others, Jolly investigates artists and audiences responses to increasing religious tensions, expanding art markets, and changing roles for women. Using cultural ideas concerning the gendered and pregnant body, Jolly reveals how dress confirms the Magdalenes multivalent nature. In some paintings, her gowns opening laces betray her wantonness yet simultaneously mark her as Christs spiritually pregnant Bride; elsewhere undress reconfirms her erotic nature while paradoxically marking her penitence; in still other works, exotic finery expresses her sanctity while celebrating Antwerps textile industry. New image types arise, as when the saint appears as a lovesick musician playing a lute or as a melancholic contemplative, longing for Christ. Some depictions emphasize her intercessory role through innovative pictorial strategies that invite performative viewing or relate her to the mythological Pandora and Italian Renaissance Neoplatonism. Throughout, the Magdalenes ambiguities destabilize readings of her imagery while engaging audiences across a broad social and religious spectrum.

Painting --- pregnancy --- Iconography --- Mary Magdalene --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Painting, Flemish --- Painting, Northern European --- Women saints in art. --- Sin in art. --- Clothing and dress in art. --- Themes, motives. --- Mary Magdalene, --- Clothing and dress in art --- Sin in art --- Women saints in art --- Northern European painting --- Flemish painting --- Costume in art --- Themes, motives --- Maddalena, --- Madeleine, --- Magdaghinē, --- Magdalene, --- Maria Maddalena, --- Maria Magdalena, --- Mariam Magdaghenatsʻi, --- Marie Madeleine, --- Mary Magdalen, --- Maryam al-Majdalīyah, --- Maria Magdalena --- Nederlandse school --- zonde