# Mary Magdalene [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BENSON, Ambrosius]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on oak panel, 46 x 37 cm ## Commentary Mary Magdalene c. 1530 Oil on oak panel, 46 x 37 cm Galleria Franchetti, Ca' d'Oro, Venice Disguised as Mary Magdalene, the young woman promises passionately human and moderately divine love, in a widely employed figurative and mental compromise between portrait and devotional image. ## Related artworks - [Concert]() - [Lady Anne Stafford]() - [Lamentation]() - [Mary Magdalene]() - [Pietà at the Foot of the Cross]() - [Portrait of a Man Holding a Rose]() - [Rest on the Flight into Egypt]() - [The Lamentation]() - [Virgin and Child]() - [Virgin and Child with Saint Anne]() - [Virgin and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara]() - [Virgin with the Pear]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()