Magdlyn

Excuse me, you guys are perverts. Looking for a woman on a cross?

Sophia's avatar is Mary Magdalene and she is sexy enough on her own. Always in a red dress, sometimes with no top, barely covered by her long wavy auburn hair.

Kneeling and crying, or fondling X's skinny feet, not strung up on a cross.

Or try rereading SofS if you are that desparate.

Llyricist

Well as far as I'm concerned the hips are a dead giveaway, though they aren't as wide Jacob would prefer, they still expand out in a way that men's do NOT. In fact that's another giveaway of transvestites, if their hips aren't wider than their waist, probably (though not absolutely) a guy, on the other hand I have yet to see a guy whose hips are wider than their waist.

Also the chest doesn't expand wider than the waist in a way you would expect of a man.

Ted Hoffman

Where can I get a copy to gaze at?

Javaman

Jacob,

Here's a hot but demure painting. Kind of like a young Elizabeth Taylor.

And here's an artsy but very naked painting. It was done (I believe) 1876 by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. I think he may have had a fascination with boobs.

Enjoy.

Magdlyn

2nd link didn't work.

This page:

http://www.beliefnet.com/index/index_10126.html#

has a MM art gallery. She is naked in a couple paintings. If that floats your boat.

She appears to be pregnant in at least one painting too.

Magdlyn

foot fetish?

http://www.abcgallery.com/A/angelico/angelico38.html

http://www.abcgallery.com/G/giotto/giotto121.html

http://www.abcgallery.com/L/lorenzet...renzetti6.html

the only figure standing still:

http://www.abcgallery.com/P/perugino/perugino12.html

odd poses here, Christ relaxed, MM suffering and tense:

http://www.abcgallery.com/P/poussin/poussin5.html

rare and strange, Mary Virgin in red, MM absent:

http://www.abcgallery.com/W/weyden/workshop2.html

Christ's head cradles in the red flowing from MM's lap:

http://www.abcgallery.com/P/poussin/poussin98.html

who is the central figure of this piece?

http://www.abcgallery.com/M/martini/martini12.html

again:

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/martini/cross.jpg

Sweet. MM presses her hand to her bosom, just below a red triple goddess triangle. Christ's hand barely brushes the red hem of her dress. Most elaborate figure is unfortunately, the overly wealthy cleric who commissioned the painting:

http://www.abcgallery.com/W/weyden/workshop20.html

Magdlyn

Oddly, now that I look at the last painting more closely, I think the standing woman at far left must be MM. Her hair is the usual auburn, altho it is uncharacteristically bound up. She carries the telltale ointment jar. Then who is the small sad very young woman in white nearest to X? The 3rd "Mary?" The maiden in pure white? The crone in black, the mother in scarlet? The triangle in the bosom of the maiden to make the 3 goddess theme obvious?

Magdlyn

OK, I guess you guys are more readers than art lovers.