Cagnacci's Mary Magdalen repentant currently on show at the National Gallery (on loan from California).Love the jewels and fabulous blue dress cast aside. Also the clear weight of her hip against the floor.
A few rooms away, Veronese's painting of the same subject has an Easter pastel colour palette (as noted before....)
'Robert had bought me a white dress for Easter, but he gave it to me on Palm Sunday to assuage my sadness. It was a tattered Victorian tea dress of handkerchief linen. I adored it and wore it in our apartment, a fragile armour against the ominous portents of 1968.'
