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...His grandmother, Princess Alice of Greece, is buried at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene, which is located lower down the slope, and also provided olives for the holy oil....
...Gillian Anderson breathes life into the human femur that captivated anthropologist Margaret Mead, historian Janina Ramirez considers a 15th-century figurine of Mary Magdalene, Kate Winslet assesses how a...
...“The claustrophobia of the little streets and poisonous green canals have made me feel as if I could be in someone else’s dream… I have loved two paintings by Tintoretto best – Mary Magdalene and Mary of...
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...In 2014, Taoiseach Enda Kenny apologised to former residents of the Magdalene Laundries, and argued that “in naming and addressing the wrong . . . we are trying to make sure we quarantine such abject behaviour...
...The response inspired then-gallery director Kenneth Clark to begin a Picture of the Month installation, choosing Titian’s Noli me Tangere – depicting Mary Magdalene unable to touch Jesus – as its first highlight...
...Below, sitting on a step, is one version of Mary Magdalene, in a black opera dress, lost in contemplation....
...According to their measure, the most valuable tree in Britain is an 18th-century plane in the grounds of St Mary Magdalene Church in Islington, measuring over 25 metres tall....
...Mary is collapsing, the Magdalene rushes forward with raised arms and dishevelled hair, St John withdraws in silent grief....
...Speaking from St Mary Magdalene school in the borough, Oliver said: “I’m proud of what they’re doing here. And when you see it working . . . you do realise it’s not rocket science.”...
...But one day she found a spare wooden board and decided to create an image of the Virgin Mary, the likes of which she had seen countless times in the Prado as a child....
...Mary’s expression and gestures are distraught, her arms hardly bear the weight of her son. The fourth figure, Mary Magdalene, looks away, dissociated, disbelieving....
...Its lucky sellers have not been named but are said to be a British couple who bought the marble of an idealised, penitent Mary Magdalene to decorate their garden....
...Hazardous ruptures scar the stone niche that hosts Mary Magdalene in Crivelli’s painting of the saint (c1491-94) on display opposite the V&A’s Madonna....
...In “St Mary Magdalene”, the young repentant woman is dramatically portrayed under a Caravaggio-esque light, delicately yet desperately reaching out with her hands....
...“Do you know the story of when a group of men were going to stone Mary Magdalene to death? And Jesus came, put his arms around her and said: ‘Those of you that never sinned, throw the first stones.’...
...St Mary Magdalene was a mission church in what were then slums. Designed by G.E....
...The singer embodies both Mary’s saintly and sexual sides; one poem is a graphic recitation of all the penises she has known....
...Her décolleté “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy” celebrates sexual rapture — no repentance: this is a free woman....
...Magdalene is named after the ambiguous biblical character of Mary Magdalene, the prostitute-apostle....
...Against a glowing sunset, Titian depicts the instant when Mary Magdalene, having tended the crucified body and then mistaken Christ for the gardener, sees that he is risen from the dead, reaches out to him...
...These included Johann Liss’s dramatic, painterly “The Temptation of Saint Mary Magdalene” (1620s), which sold to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for £4.8m (£5.7m with fees), a record for the artist....
...Just look at the song titles — “Leviticus: Faggot”, “Mary Magdalene”, “Ecclesiastes: Free My Heart” — not to mention the lyrics’ biblical language....
...Magdalena Kozena is sultry and seductive, a reincarnation of the Mary Magdalene figure she portrayed under Sellars, but too often chews the scenery....
...Everyone please wear black for Mary Magdalene. Everyone please come dressed as the Ghost of Easter Future. When pieties converge, can spring — the spring for sanctimonious revisionism — be far behind?...
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