Sexual Fables

This article accompanies the fable
Sacred Prostitute


Jules Joseph Lefebvre's "Mary Magdalene in the Cave" (1876) certainly prompts the question of what she was doing in that cave. Lefebvre specialized in female nudes.

Jules Joseph Lefebvre's Mary Magdalene in the Cave (1876) certainly prompts the question of what she was doing in that cave. Lefebvre specialized in nudes.

This painting is in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Below is Lefebvre's (fully clothed) Ophelia from 1890. It is in a private collection.

Lefebvre-Ophelia
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