Example sentences for: magdalen

How can you use “magdalen” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One recalls the advice given by the aged Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854), President of Magdalen College, Oxford, to an undergraduate: “Always verify your references, sir!”

  • The superb frescoes of the life of Jesus in the St. Mary Magdalen Chapel (closest to altar on the right nave) and of St. Francis’s vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience above the elegant Gothic high altar are attributed to Giotto (1307) and his workshop.

  • Flaws in the marble so enraged the artist that he hurled a hammer at it, destroying Christ’s left leg — the left arm has been restored and the rather insipid Mary Magdalen was later added by a pupil.

  • The 17th-century Baroque Madonna del Voto Chapel (in the right transept) was designed by Bernini, whose statues of St. Jerome and Mary Magdalen flank the entrance.

  • Titian displays his masterly use of color and light in The Concert (Hall 5, Venus), a haunting portrait of The Englishman and bare-breasted Magdalen (Hall 6, Apollo).


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