A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has sold at auction for $3.1 million. The delicate oil painting measures less than 15 inches tall and about 5 inches wide. Raphael painted the portrait ...

Mary Magdalene is usually depicted as looking up to heaven. In George de la Tour’s depiction of Mary Magdalene, she looks at the candlelight, a symbol of illumination and divine light.

The question of whether the skull authentically belonged to the biblical figure known as Mary Magdalene is less straightforward. As the religious scholar Philip Almond explains in his 2023 book ...

Mary may have come into contact with Jesus because of his healing powers. “Seven demons had gone out of her,” says Luke (Luke 8:2). Some scholars believe that the Magdalene may be the same ...

If Mary Magdalene so often embodies the “scarlet woman” trope, she also stands as an icon of Christian culture’s suspicion of women’s stories and of our seeming untrustworthiness. For—once we have ...

See the Miniature Portrait of Mary Magdalene That Raphael Painted When He Was Only 20 Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the ...