These are works that have been removed from the Duomo to keep them safe from the elements.
This last pieta by Michelangelo was done in his late 80s before
he died.
The man standing is Nicodemus and he has the face of Michelangelo.
The original "Baptism of Christ by St. John the Baptist".
One of the Singing Choirs by Donatello and a panel from the door of the Bapistery, by Brunelleschi
Mary Magdalene, wood sculpture by Donatello 1454-55
The emaciated, hollow-eyed, almost toothless figure seems to demonstrate the mood that surfaced at the end of the century in Florence under the spell of Savonarola.
Emblems of some of the various guilds that contributed to the construction of the Duomo.
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