I am looking at Rogier Van de Weyden's picture of Mary Magdalen. She wears a dress like the one in "The Arnolfini Marriage". It flows across the picture and suggests its own heaviness, like a smooth blanket. From the picture you would think she has an easy life, one of reading, albeit from very pious books - No pictures for Mary you might say unless you count the illustrated letters at the start of each Chapter.

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I don't think this does the colours justice but if you find it elsewhere it may be better.