# Mary Magdalene

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## Artwork

- Artist: [ERHART, Gregor](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/erhart-gregor-rf4504a497b2564>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Polychrome limewood

## Commentary

This celebrated sculpture is also called &#34;La Belle Allemande&#34; for which a woodcut by Dürer from around 1500 may have served as a model. The harmonious and quiet earthly nudity of the saint, at once emphasized and concealed by the long hair, and the elegance of her pose pivoting in a slight contrapposto, reveal a desire for carnal beauty already in the Renaissance spirit and very far from the still Gothic interpretation which Riemenschneider had given to the same theme some ten years before.

## Related artworks

- [Christ Child with the Terrestrial Globe](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/erhart-gregor-rf4504a497b2564/christ-child-with-the-terrestrial-globe-re0f7798f8a2bf5>)
- [Vanitas](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/erhart-gregor-rf4504a497b2564/vanitas-r987dd399102549>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)