TIL that when sculpting the Penitent Magdalene

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TIL that when sculpting the Penitent Magdalene, Donatello, the famous sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, may have been inspired by a model suffering from lipodystrophy, making the wooden masterpiece a remarkable convergence of art history and paleopathology.
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Lipodystrophies in the history of art: Donatello’s Magdalene - PMC

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TIL that when sculpting the Penitent Magdalene, Donatello…

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