# An Angel Brings the Holy Communion to Mary Magdalen [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LORENZO DI CREDI]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Tempera on wood, 51 x 38 cm ## Commentary According to the legend, after the ascension of Christ, Mary Magdalen came to France in a boat with miraculous help, together with her brother and sister and a few other pious people. Here she lived in seclusion for thirty years. To this lonely pilgrim an angel brought the Host and seven times a day angels took her up to heaven. These two events in the life of the Saint are often linked together by painters as in the portrayal by the young Antonio Pollaiolo, whose altarpiece in the church at Staggia was the model for Credi's panel. This painting is a fine example of Lorenzo's late period. By this time the art of Credi is a conservative phenomenon in Florence, and his works were often characterized by the mechanical employment of often repeated stereotypes. The light and softly formed figures of this panel, however, already suggest something of the atmosphere of the High Renaissance. \*\*\* Keywords: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* Author: LORENZO DI CREDI Title: An Angel Brings the Holy Communion to Mary Magdalen Time-line: 1501-1550 School: Italian Form: painting Type: religious ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Bust of a Boy Wearing a Cap]() - [Bust of a Man Wearing a Rolled-Up Cowl Hood]() - [Head of an Elderly Man Wearing a Hat]() - [Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate]() - [Madonna with the Christ Child and St John the Baptist]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Young Woman]() - [The Holy Family]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()