Mary Magdalene

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This terracotta bust, whose recent restoration highlighted sober colours, depicts Saint Mary Magdalene and is attributed to Tullio Lombardo. In recent years, however, critics have put forward an attribution to Antonio Minello da Padova, a sculptor in the Lombardo circle famous for having created, together with his father, the statue of Saint Justine in the Chapel of the Arca in the Church of Sant'Antonio in Padua, a work for which it is likely that the head of this Magdalene served as a model.