The ''Penitent Magdalene'' is a 1565 oil painting by
Titian of saint
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to crucifixion of Jesus, his cru ...
, now in the
Hermitage Museum in
Saint Petersburg. Unlike his 1531 version of the same subject, Titian has covered Mary's nudity and introduced a vase, an open book and a skull as a
memento mori
''Memento mori'' (Latin for 'remember that you ave todie'