Name: Coco Willsallen
Date: 2002-03-09
Comments: This work is so accurately composed. Notice the way the body is perfectly contsructed underneath the folds of the drapery.
Name: ashlea
Date: 2003-01-16
Comments: this work is amazing
notice how in real life mary magdalen was a beauty, but in the sculpture she is ugly and warped. this is because he is trying to show her inner beauty--which wasnt that pretty. great perspective.
Name: Rachelle
Date: 2003-01-28
Comments: What covers her entirely is not drapery, but her hair. The iconography of Mary Magdalen is long, wild locks. Yet note how tamed the locks are, with her position in prayer. She is so covered in them that you can't even see her womanly figure which has faded away over the years of isolation. It shows a passionate figure with constant penitence.
Name: Emma
Date: 2003-05-18
Comments: I disagree with Ashlea. The Magdalen was beautiful on the inside, because "she loved so much." This is when she was old and decrepit - and still beautiful, because her soul is repenting and sorrowful and adoring. Look at her EYES.
Amazing work, by the way.
Name:
Date: 2003-09-18
Comments: i would like to know some more info on this piece of art. Some Biographal info on the sculpture itself. such as what is the size? what influnced him to make this particular sculpture? who commissioned his work? If you have the answers to these questions please send them to charlestubbs@hotmail.com
Thank you
Name: Ari Bent Ómarsson
Date: 2003-12-15
Comments: This peach is realy good, it inspires young people to give a go in craftmanship. I like how the hands come together and ask for mercy.
Name: confused
Date: 2004-10-13
Comments: i dont understand why Donayello wanted to sculpt marey magdalen i have been trying to find out information and the background to it for hours . i have an essay due in tomorrw can someone please help?
Name: Shelby..
Date: 2004-10-21
Comments: This work of art is awesome. The statue is clearly beatiful and has been put a lot of thought into it. Donatello is a passionate artist.
