DONATELLO
(b. ca. 1386, Firenze, d. 1466, Firenze)

St Mary Magdalene (detail)

c. 1457
Polychrome wood
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence

The long flowing hair is covering the ascetic as if it were a garment. Beneath it the shape of her body can be made out, and Donatello depicted it with anatomical precision.




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