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baldachin - Mary-Magdalen is preaching to the people of Marseilles -
Baldachin
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Mary-Magdalen is enumerating and counting her arguments on her fingers ; this gesture was frequent at that time and used to be called " comput digitalis ".

The audience is divided into two groups, men are sitting on chests and women on the grass.

Many details of the civil masculine and feminine costume are to be noticed.

The treatment of this scene is particularly typical of the painter's manner : quick and efficient drawing, expressive gestures and attitudes, treatment of space (in the way people are gathered into groups) that uses well tested procedures. He uses the green and blue back-screens in the alpine tradition.

As the manner of this artist has been recognized in the decoration of the chapel San Bernardino in Lusernetta, Piedmont, the anonymous painter of Auron now bears the conventional name of " Master of Lusernetta ".


baldachin - Mary-Magdalen's cycle of life-