The Ointment of Magdalene – Tissot Religious Life David has dropped his harp

David has dropped his harp and scepter

and art troubled about many things: But one thing is necessary

This artwork by F

who fled fame to be a hermit in Europe along the Rhone River

and the grandmother of Jesus

The Ointment of Magdalene – Tissot Religious Life David has dropped his harpIn this detailed depiction of the washing of Christ's feet by Mary Magdalene, the penitent woman kneels before the couch on which Christ reclines, with her long auburn hair wound around the Savior's right foot. Simon the Pharisee and the other people reclining beside Jesus in the courtyard of Simon stare, aghast, at the sinful woman washing the feet of Jesus with expensive ointment and drying them with her hair. A crowd presses up against the gate to