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Caravaggio · c.1598

Martha and Mary Magdalene

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Martha, her face shadowed, leans in to persuade her sister Mary Magdalene, who sits in a red silk sleeve and green drape holding an orange blossom beside a round mirror, a comb and a dish of sponge on the table. Detroit Institute of Arts.

Up to 10.8 × 8 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

10.8″8″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of Martha and Mary Magdalene

Martha and Mary Magdalene was painted while Caravaggio lived in the household of Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, and is dated to about 1598–99. Wikipedia notes that little is known of its history until 25 June 1971, when its owners tried to sell it at Christie's in London; it is now in the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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