L'Opere dell Duomo

We also went to the Duomo Museum with class! Hooray for long lectures standing on your feet with no laptop to potentially distract you from listening to things you already know! Anyway, the museum holds the original sculptures from the facade of the Duomo, the ones outside are now copies. I don't know what a lot of these are because we only covered certain ones and I didn't have time to look because we had to keep up with Helen speed-demon Waterson.


This looked like a tondo portrait of someone who helped with the architecture, or the planning, or maybe the personification of a guild because he's chiseling out the ground plan of the church.


An early 1200's annunciation that was on the facade.


Also from the late Gothic period, but I don't know what.



Donatello's St.one-of-the-evangelists that heavily influenced Michelangelo's Moses (which DID go on the Julius tomb).


An early Adam and Eve.



One of the original Gates of Paradise panels! The others are currently under restoration and unification.


This is Michelangelo's second to last Pieta and the real reason we came to the museum, good thing too, because it was on the midterm, which by the way we supes ridiculously aced. Like, we fracking KILLED that sucka. Helen Waterson was in awe.



The best for last, kind of, I did love the Mike, let's say the most anticipated for last because I knew it was here and I got excited for it. Donatello's Mary Magdalene. Epic. And truly deserving of that word.