Zannino di Pietro da Venezia

This Venetian painter signed contracts in broad daylight, then vanished, leaving no letters, only panels glowing with gold-backed saints. In Maria Maddalena he paints her hair loose, robe half-off, catching light like a lamp just touched. Start with the gilt halo, then look at her bare feet on the marble floor, no throne, no crowd, just one woman lit like a private revelation.