Focus on this artwork and explain the abstract.
Penitent Magdalene is a painting by the Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi. It hangs in Seville Cathedral. It has probably been in the cathedral since the late 17th century.  She returned to the subject later in the 1620s in Mary Magdalene as Melancholy.
Artemisia Gentileschi Seville Mary Magdalene as Melancholy Seville Cathedral