Four centuries on, Caravaggio’s Mary Magdalene finds her way to India | India News – The Times of India
She leans back with her eyes closed and lips slightly parted, her face flushed with a wave of intense emotion. At her feet lies a skull — possibly a quiet reminder of the impermanence of beauty. Painted around 1606 by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, ‘Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy’ depicts the saint not in grief…