Caravaggio, Martha and Mary Magdalene (c. 1598, Detroit Institute of Arts)
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«Symbolism, in its widest sense, may be said to embrace the whole range of art, for all art is symbolical that is, it aims at expressing something beyond itself.»
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W. & G. Audsley, Guide to the Art of Illuminating and Missal painting, 1861, p. 60.
