# Mary Magdalen [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SCOREL, Jan van]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on oak panel, 66 x 76 cm ## Commentary Scorel travelled all over Germany, and into Italy, went to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage, arrived back in Venice in 1521, made his fortune by being in Rome at the right moment to be practically the only artist patronized by the Dutch pope Hadrian VI, came back to Utrecht full of the influences of Giorgione, Palma Vecchio, Raphael and Michelangelo, and later went to France. Scorel was the first Renaissance artist in the Netherlands. He depicted Mary Magdalen as a Venetian courtesan seen through the eyes of a Netherlandish artist who had mastered the imitation of materials. He placed her in the mountains of southern France to which the converted prostitute supposedly retreated in later life. ## Related artworks - [12 Members of the Haarlem Brotherhood of Jerusalem Pilgrims]() - [Death of Cleopatra]() - [Diptych]() - [Entry of Christ into Jerusalem]() - [Lochorst Triptych]() - [Lucretia]() - [Madonna of the Daffodils with the Christ Child and Donors]() - [Portrait of a Man of Thirty-Two Years]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Schoolboy]() - [Portrait of a Venetian Man]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()