In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Dürer’s woodcut of Mary Magdalene represents a popular subject in German art and is considered a schlechtes Holzwerk, a simple woodcut intended for a general audience. According to a medieval book of saints’ lives known as the Golden Legend, Mary Magdalene spent the last 30 years of her life as a hermit outside of Marseilles, France, where she was miraculously borne aloft to heaven seven times a day to hear the choir of angels. Considered a fallen woman in her early life, Mary earned redemption through her complete devotion to Christ. During this period, Dürer was preoccupied with the laws of human proportion and the female figure. Mary Magdalene’s powerful legs and widened hips are comparable to the female nudes in Dürer’s The Dream of the Doctor and Adam and Eve.
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Albrecht Dürer — The Ecstasy of Saint Mary Magdalen
Albrecht Dürer — The Elevation of Saint Mary Magdalen
Lucas Cranach (German, 1472–1553) — The Ecstasy of St. Mary 
Lucas Cranach (German, 1472–1553) — The Ecstasy of Saint Mar
Lucas Cranach the Elder — Venus and Cupid
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) — Adam and Eve
Hans Baldung (German, 1484/85–1545) — The Great St. Sebastia
Hans Burgkmair — Venus with Libra and Taurus, from "The Seve
Lucas Cranach the Elder — The Ecstacy of St. Mary Magdalen
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) — St. Mary Magdalen
Hans Baldung (German, 1484/85–1545) — Adam and Eve
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) — St. Sebastian Bou
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