Maria Magdalena (sculpture by Gregor Erhart)

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Maria Magdalena - sculpture, also known as "La Belle Allemande" - by Gregor Erhart, an example of a late Gothic wooden sculpture. It is estimated to be around 1510.

The oldest history of this statue is unknown. Probably decorated the interior of the Dominican church in Augsburg. In the 19th century it belonged to the Munich collection of Siegfried Lämmle. It was purchased in 1902 to the Paris Louvre, where it is still today.

It is a natural, full-body sculpture made of linden wood, partly covered with polychrome. She presents Maria Magdalena as a young woman with small eyes and lips, delicate facial features. Her naked, full of graceful female body is dynamically raised, covered with long strands of wavy red hair. The woman is shown in a strong contrapunter, the head is slightly inclined and turned to the left. Folded hands suggest to show it during prayer.

In the Middle Ages, the presentation of the act was rare. The act was reserved for the performances of the first parents, as exemplified by the late Gothic sculptures of Adam and Eve decorating the former town hall in Würzburg (former Mainfränkisches Museum there). The type of penance, naked Mary Magdalene was widespread in painting and graphic renaissance, and an example of this type of representation is a woodcut made about 1500 by Albrecht Dürer with a representation of this woman carried by angels. As a result, a work combining new ideas from Italy with a late Gothic tradition that survived throughout the first half of the sixteenth century in the Reich. Mary Magdalene Erhart was probably founded around 1510. Bibliography

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