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Interiors of the Doria
Pamphilj Gallery, housed
in the Palazzo Doria
Pamphilj in Rome. R OYA LT Y

O ne of Caravaggio’s most
important works, Penitent
Magdalene, is held in the
Doria Pamphilj Gallery in Rome
on Via del Corso. The painting
is significant, and singular, for
its depiction of Magdalene.
Previously painted in sensual
light, with voluptuous turn, here
she is in a repose of terrific
plainness. Without erotic charge,
BOB KRIST/GETTYIMAGES THE PRINCE OF ART or reflective: a woman on the
she appears either remorseful

brink of transformation. This is
markedly different from her
Writer and Travel + Leisure India & South Asia’s A-List member SIDDHARTH DHANVANT
other interpretations as a ‘fallen’
SHANGHVI’s decade-long friendship with Rome’s Prince Jonathan Doria Pamphilj has
woman (there was some talk
served as a revelation in art, humanity, and charm.

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