Maria Maddalena And The Reliquary Chapel: An Analysis

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In this article, Barzman examines the dedication of Maria Maddalena to her faith and devotion to the sisters of Saint Mary of the Angels. And the Reliquary Chapel of Maria Maddalena de’Pazzi created one hundred years after her death in her memory and honour. More importantly she portrays the “status in Art History of the Chapel raising critical questions for the seventeenth century studies with respect to gender, power and audience.” (173) Maddalena was one of the few women named “co-titular saint of the grandiose church in Florence,”(173) which is described as a “remarkable phenomenon”(173) as a woman. Maria Maddalena de’Pazzi was baptized Caterina and was “devoted to the Eucharist and vowed to perpetual chastity.”(173) Maddalena was also

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