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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 6636017, member: 5833&quot;]From my work trying to identify cameo subjects &amp; their sources, I have learned that the received wisdom on these matters is not always correct.&nbsp; At the end of this article is an account of how an image nowadays described as Mary Magdalen is actually an allegorical figure of Hope, not by the school of/circle of Guido Reni but by Reni himself: </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/anchor-of-hope" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/anchor-of-hope" rel="nofollow">https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/anchor-of-hope</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I did originally have her in the article on Mary M., but never stopped being bothered by the inconsistencies of her steepled fingers &amp; serenely upraised eyes, the way the Virgin looks in <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437423" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437423" rel="nofollow">Reni&#039;s Immaculate Conception</a>, and the robe slipped off the shoulder, more like the other Mary.&nbsp; I looked at I don&#039;t know how many Magdalens, learning that when praying she is conventionally shown with her fingers interlaced, hands clasped tightly together in supplication, with eyes rolled way back in an ecstatic transport.&nbsp; She was just wrong for the Magdalen, despite all the auction house descriptions.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m bothered in a similar way about the identification of this piece as Rebecca on the basis of the well alone.&nbsp; This lady is more of a gypsy.&nbsp; I took a quick look at images of the Samaritan woman at the well.&nbsp; Although Jesus calls her out for having had 4 husbands &amp; to be currently living with a man to whom she is not married, artistic convention seems to portray her as properly covered up.&nbsp; Hmm indeed.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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