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‘One of [Donatello’s]* first works upon his return to Florence was a wooden statue of Mary Magdalene for the baptistry of the Cathedral. The nervous energy and conscious distortion of forms that may be detected in all his work becomes explicit in the emaciated figure clothed in her own hair. This same emotionalism and distortion is even more pronounced in his last work, the pulpits for the church of S. Lorenzo in Florence.’

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** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:95]

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