Bernard van Orley
The Crucifixion: Detail: St. Mary Magdalene

1515-25
Oil on panel
Columbia Museum of Art

St. Mary Magdalene hugs the foot of the cross, but without the extravagant show of grief seen in earlier paintings of the Crucifixion.

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