It isn't often that an artwork takes my breathe away, but #Donatello's Penitent Magdalene certainly did. (1/5) 
She's a life-sized wooden sculpture once in the Florentine Baptistry, now in the Duomo Museum. As she's not on a pedestal or anything, you can get right up close (Michaelangelo's Pieta in the background below). (2/5)
As you will already have gathered, the Duomo Museum is an uncrowded gem compared to the more famous attractions of Florence, stuffed with world-class late medieval art like this Andrea Pisano relief of an astronomer. (3/5)
If you are in London and need a #Donatello fix, the current exhibition at the @V_and_A is a must see open until June. (4/5) vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/do…
Mary has stayed home, but several of the masterpieces of the Bargello Museum are included (we saw the empty pedestals when we were in Italy). (5/5)
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