{"id":6320,"date":"2021-08-20T00:03:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/pedro-de-menas-magdalena\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:28:12","slug":"pedro-de-menas-magdalena","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/museo-nacional-de-escultura-of-valladolid\/pedro-de-menas-magdalena\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro de Mena&#8217;s &#8220;Magdalena&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pedro de Mena&#8217;s &#8220;Magdalena&#8221; <\/h1>\n<div class=\"testo\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mar\u00eda Bola\u00f1os Atienza, Director of the Director of the National Sculpture Museum, shows us one of the most important works preserved in the permanent exhibition at the Museum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <em>Magdalena<\/em> is one of the great works of the Andalusian sculptor <a href=\"#\" class=\"tooltip yellow-tooltip\">Pedro de Mena<span>Pedro de Mena y Medrano (1628-1668) was one of the leading exponents of Spanish Baroque sculpture. Born in Granada, he devoted himself primarily to religious works, working mainly in the city of M\u00e1laga, where he died. In the <em>Museo Nacional de Escultura<\/em> of Valladolid his famous <em>Mary Magdalene Penitent<\/em> is preserved. Noteworthy are also his <em>Ecce homo<\/em>, <em>Dolorosas<\/em> and the image of <em>Saint Francis of Assisi<\/em> preserved in the Cathedral of Toledo.<\/span><\/a>. Made upon commission by the <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/lecce\/seminary\/society-of-jesus\/\" title=\"Society of Jesus\">Jesuits<\/a> in <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/alcala-de-henares\/the-ermita-del-cristo-de-los-doctrinos\/madrid\/\" title=\"Madrid\">Madrid<\/a> for their motherhouse, it is centered on the theme of repentance and penance, very dear to Iberian religiosity. Mary Magdalene is a figure which is ideally halfway between the Virgin, a symbol of absolute goodness, and Eve, the temptress. It is on the other side of a recurring character in Spanish art, a theme also portrayed by great artists such as <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/the-archbishops-palace-and-the-cathedral\/jusepe-de-ribera-called-lo-spagnoletto\/\" title=\"Jusepe de Ribera, called lo Spagnoletto\">Ribera<\/a>. The sculptural work of Pedro de Mena expresses a very intense feeling of mystical identification with Jesus through meditation on a crucifix. It is a true icon of the museum and Spanish Baroque sculpture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/museo-nacional-de-escultura-of-valladolid\/gregorio-fernandezs-cristo-yacente\/\" title=\"Gregorio Fern\u00e1ndez's &quot;Cristo yacente&quot;\">&lt;&lt;&lt;&#8212;previous page<\/a> &nbsp; <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/museo-nacional-de-escultura-of-valladolid\/gregorio-fernandezs-saint-teresa-of-jesus\/\" title=\"Gregorio Fern\u00e1ndez's &quot;Saint Teresa of Jesus&quot;\">next page&#8212;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro de Mena&#8217;s &#8220;Magdalena&#8221; Mar\u00eda Bola\u00f1os Atienza, Director of the Director of the National Sculpture Museum, shows us one of the most important works preserved in the permanent exhibition at the Museum. The Magdalena is one of the great works of the Andalusian sculptor Pedro&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7126,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6320","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11500,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6320\/revisions\/11500"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}