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Inside the Baptistery there were also great artworks, that now are inside the Museum of the Opera del Duomo for conservative reasons, such as Donatello’s Mary Magdalene, a wooden sculpture with great expressiveness, or the Silver Altar of Saint John the Baptist, a particular altar made all in silver and gold.

The two parts of the marble floor

(source: http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/Baptistery_of_florence.html)

The Silver Altar of Saint John the Baptist, Florence, Museum of the Opera del Duomo

(source: http://www.tafter.it/2012/03/28/restauro-torna-visibile-al-pubblico-

laltare-dargento-del-battistero-di-san-giovanni-a-firenze/)

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