# Mary Magdalene Penitent [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RIBERA, Jusepe de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 196 x 148 cm ## Commentary The beautiful Mary Magdalene Penitent is a replica of the work kept in the Prado Museum that forms part of a series of four compositions in which youth and old age in man and woman are contrasted; Magdalene is compared with Saint John the Baptist adolescent and Saint Mary of Egypt is compared to Saint Bartholomew. The pictorial space in this solemn and monumental composition is arranged in the form of a triangle. The thick squared ashlars on which the saint is leaning pay tribute to the most classical of painters from Bologna, Annibale Carracci, who used them in <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/c/carracci/annibale/2/pieta\_s.html'\)" href="/html/c/carracci/annibale/2/pieta\_s.html">his Pietà,</a> a work that was made widely accessible through prints. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [An Old Money-Lender]() - [Apollo and Marsyas]() - [Apollo Flaying Marsyas]() - [Aristotle]() - [Clubfooted Boy]() - [Democritus \(Archimedes\)]() - [Denial of Saint Peter]() - [Diogenes]() - [Hercules at Rest]() - [Holy Trinity]() - [Ixion]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()