Saint, Sinner, Myth: The Unprecedented Exhibition on Mary Magdalene - From El Greco to Naomi Campbell - iefimerida.gr

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A major exhibition at the Stadel Museum brings together more than 100 depictions of Mary Magdalene: from El Greco and Georges de La Tour to Marlene Dumas, who in 1996 gave her face to Naomi Campbell. Saint, apostle, “sinner,” object of desire, woman in mourning. A candle burns in the darkness. Its flickering light falls on a woman’s face, her hand touching a skull. In “Penitent Magdalen in Meditation,” circa 1635-40, Georges de La Tour painted a…