Mary Magdalene
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It is always interesting to see what art historians get up to when none of the rest of us is…
The codes and codswallop surrounding Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci has suffered more than most artists from fake history and misinterpretation. But it doesn’t make him any less fascinating, says Martin Gayford
The loveliest episode of Holy Week – Christ rises from the potting shed
Only the subtlest artists choose to paint the Noli Me Tangere scene, a still, small episode of calm after the horrors of the Passion, says Laura Freeman
The Bishop of Wherever won't have a fit – assuming he stays awake: Mary Magdalene reviewed
This biopic of Mary Magdalene is a feminist retelling that may well be deserved but it’s so dreary and unremarkable…
Painted more shades of grey than a Farrow & Ball catalogue: The Judas Passion reviewed
‘Can the ultimate betrayal ever be forgiven?’ screams the publicity for The Judas Passion, transforming a Biblical drama into a…
The GP charged around to my side of the table and roved her hand all over my pubic area
On Friday morning I was peeing razor blades so I rang up the doctor and was given an appointment after…
The dangerous red-headed league
‘Gentlemen prefer blondes,’ Anita Loos pronounced, ‘but gentlemen marry brunettes.’ Quite what they do with redheads she never revealed (and…
No one in the Bible has been as elaborately misrepresented as Mary Magdalene
A bogus history book and a new oratorio turn Mary Magdalene into the wife of Jesus and a human rights activist. Damian Thompson feels sorry for the poor woman
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