She is one of the most significant women in the Bible. But what did Mary Magdalene really look like? In Western art and film – such as the 2018 film 'Mary Magdalene', starring Rooney Mara – she is ...

In something resembling Where’s Waldo for a Renaissance masterpiece, an Italian researcher is confident she has located a depiction of Mary Magdalene in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. So confident, in ...

St. Mary Magdalene’s feast on July 22 is the perfect time to see what we really can learn about her and from her. The raising of the rank of the liturgical veneration of St. Mary Magdalene from ...

Researchers claim to have come across a figure of great importance in Michelangelo’s nearly 500-year-old painting, The Last Judgment. Located on an entire altar wall in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican ...

Mary Magdalene was a recipient of grace with a story to proclaim. Save for Jesus Christ and his mother Mary, few biblical figures hold more prominence in the history of Christian art than Mary ...

She was there when Jesus was crucified, yet no one knows much about her. That might be why scholars just can’t quit chasing down the truth about Mary Magdalene. The Penitent Magdalene by Guido Reni.

An ancient depiction of a naked woman hung on the wall of my father’s study. Skeletal, stupefied, and wildly bedheaded, she contemplated distances across time and space, as saints and mystics do. As ...