Attributed To Alessandro Casolani (1552 - 1607) Or To Ventura Sambeni, Mary Magdalene

Alessandro Casolani
Italian painter
Mensano (near Siena) 1552 – 1607 Siena
The penitent Mary Magdalene
Oil on canvas : 78,6 X 65,0 cm
Unsigned
Frame : 96,1 X 82,7 cm

Alessandro Casolani is one of the last painters of the Mannerist school of Siena. He was strongly influenced by the art of Domenico Beccafumi, whom he never met, as he died one year before he was born. One feels the same Medieval sense of mysticism in his often sort of floating figures painted in unusual colour combinations.

Saint Catherine of Siena (1347 – 1380) believed in her mystical marriage to Christ. Siena remained a town of spiritualism: see how our Christ almost jumps from his cross to Mary Magdalene, one of his closest and most beloved disciples.

All my paintings stand fully documented on my website : 
https://www.jeanmoust.com/artists/biblical-mythological-and-allegorical-scenes/casolani-alessandro/the-penitent-mary-magdalene-1669297