Maria Magdalena

Maria Magdalena

As we have mentioned, there are seven Iconographies of smaller size, four of whose figures are identified by Maria Magdalena and other three larger plants, representing episodes of the life of Jesus below of the central icon: the birth, crucifixion and the descent from the cross. Expose and describe in detail what is represented in all the icons would be impossible in the present article, for the great amount of data and pictures.

But as the main evidence to which we have been referring is precisely on some of these icons, we will refer in particular to the latter briefly. The central icon shows the scene of the crucifixion of Jesus, along with the two thieves and feet we find the biggest surprise: Maria Magdalena pregnant! I contemplated the scene from every angle possible to exclude the possibility of an optical illusion. But it was not any error of assessment. Cupcake represented at the foot of the cross of Jesus, totally desolate, with red hair and the handkerchief in her left hand rinsing the tears had been evoked as a pregnant woman, with her swollen breasts, remarking the nipples and her belly swelling in the form characteristic of pregnancy.

It is a stomach very low, on the verge of giving birth, in the position that the women of East formerly taken to giving birth. A skull, traditionally associated with Magdalena in the iconography appears next to it. Do not leave any doubt regarding her pregnancy, the author of the icon painted for a kind of girdle – as was then to redial your breasts in pregnant women, as it was pleased to tell me my friend Manuel de Perea, painter, sculptor and goldsmith and therefore qualified to provide such references-that runs from the shoulder to the waist clearly emphasizing the swollen cupcake chest. (see photo on the website of the author) Mary Magdalene pregnant at the foot of the cross in the single icon appear the two women who are traditionally identified with Maria the Virgin (mother of Jesus) and Maria Magdalena, which clears any questions about identity and the State of pregnancy of the represented figure.

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