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There are depictions of her also showing us how various artists viewed her and Jesus ' relationship.

According to Robert Kiely, " no figure in the Christian Pantheon except Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and John the Baptist has inspired, provoked, or confounded the imagination of painters more than the Magdalene.

" Paintings can offer a deep insight as to what popular culture believed about an individual at a certain point in history.

See Fra Angelico ’ s painting Noli me tangere.