{"pk":40549,"title":"Rethinking Savoldo's \nMagdalenes\n: A \"Muddle of Maries\"?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The luminously veiled women in Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo’s four \nMagdalene \npaintings have consistently been identified by scholars as Mary Magdalene at the tomb on Easter morning, yet these physically and emotionally self-contained figures are atypical of representations of the saint in the early \nCinquecento\n, when she is most often seen as an exuberant observer of Christ’s Resurrection in scenes of the\n Noli me tangere\n or as a worldly penitent in half-length. A reconsideration of the four \nMagdalene\n images alongside contemporary imagery and a myriad of early Christian, Byzantine, and Italian accounts of the Passion, instead suggest that Savoldo, in these paintings, adds a new, more complex response to a millennium-old discussion about the respective roles of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene. At the expense of iconic clarity, the painter whom Vasari described as “capriccioso e sofistico” appears to have created a multivalent image to accommodate both the conflicting accounts present in written sacred and hagiographic texts and to the intellectual appeal of the aporetic in the sixteenth century.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Savoldo"},{"word":"Magdalene"},{"word":"Venice"},{"word":"Virgin Mary"},{"word":"Italian Renaissance"}],"section":"The Sacred and the Saints","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1n76034t","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Charlotte","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nichols","name_suffix":"","institution":"Seton Hall University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2014-07-01T01:43:43Z","date_accepted":"2014-07-01T01:43:43Z","date_published":"2015-07-30T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40549/galley/30456/download/"}]}