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1st Art Gallery offers the option to receive your painting ready to hang or rolled in a tube.
Currently, for safety, we're able to ship framed paintings only up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached, the framing option is automatically disabled.
However, if you are interested in stretching or framing a painting larger than 24x36 inches (60x90 cm), please contact one of our customer success associates or let us know in your order notes. We will send you a catalog of our large framing styles and pricing options.
Unframed rolled canvas orders will arrive rolled inside a protective tube with an extra 1.5" white canvas on all sides so you can easily frame it locally.
The Penitent Magdalene is a awestrucking oil on canvas by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Murillo was one of the masters of 17th-century painting and drawing from the Spanish, Italian and Dutch tradition, capable of synthesizing a new perspective on religious painting. A deep affectionate for his city, Murillo portrayed many Sevillian citizens as in his genre paintings and infused a detailed realism in his rendition of human figures in religious paintings. Murillo's work brings both a heavenly atmosphere and the earthly details of human life together. The artwork shows Mary Magdalene praying against a black background.
The Penitent Magdalene is a 160.66 cm x 105.41 cm( 63.2 x 41.4 in) oil painting and part of the San Diego Museum of Art's collection. It was painted around 1660 and 1665, when Murillo had reached his maturity, and his work got more complex. Before it, Murillo had followed a particular Sevillian tradition of portraying bodegones and was deeply influenced by the naturalism of Jusepe de Ribera and tenebrism.
In the 1660s, Murillo seemed to be influenced by Titian and Rubens's works, which he probably saw while visiting Madrid. His work gets more colorful, less rigid, and his famous vaporous style starts to emerge. During that decade, Murillo became a master of lighting and color, and his later works are unmistakable, marked by great attention to detail and creative expression.
The background of the scene is almost abstract, a constant feature of Murillo's late work. From what is possible to see at floor level and the upper-right, brown emerges from the cold black that dominates this area; it seems to be either a cave or a mountainous region. Mary is on her knees praying; her skin is bright, with a contrasting light focus on her, almost reaching a theatrical effect. She is wearing purple robes with a wine-like tint, and close to her knees, on the bottom right, there is a book, a crucifix, a brown skull, and an urn. The objects, the skull especially, also bind the painting to the famous "memento mori" motto.
Following a manner that would characterize his work from now on, Mary Magdalene was rendered very fluidly. There isn't a rigid line outlining her from the background, which gives a ghost-like quality to her rendition. Looking up close to her arms, head, neck, hands, and hair, one can notice Murillo's perfectly employed brushstrokes, giving both a luminescent quality to her and an almost blurred effect of movement.
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If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Mary Magdalene, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Mary Magdalene that you would like the artist to work from, please include it as an attachment. Otherwise, we will reproduce the above image for you exactly as it is.
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Note that for safety reasons we can only frame up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached the framing option is automatically disabled.
If you are planning to frame your painting yourself, use an existing frame, or frame it locally, you may choose to order your painting with a stretching service, meaning that it will arrive mounted on wooden bars.
If you're considering not framing your painting at all, you may opt for a Gallery Wrap. The term Gallery Wrap refers to the way the canvas is stretched, which is by wrapping it around thick stretcher bars, about 1.5 inch thick, with the canvas being secured to the back rather than the sides of those bars.
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Unframed paintings are covered with a special protective film, are gently rolled and then placed inside a strong specially designed tube.
Stretched, Gallery Wrapped and Framed paintings are covered with protective bubble wrap, separated by foam board and then carefully put into the cardboard box.