Another highlight of Florence was the newly reopened Museo Opera del Duomo, the museum of the cathedral of Florence. It is in a word stupendous. In a city of great museums this one now challenges the great Uffizi. It’s one of the best museums in the world now. There are stunning works of art, including Donatello’s powerful wooden sculpture of the penitent Mary Magdalene and Michelangelo’s unfinished final Pieta, pictured above in a detail, with Christ’s body cruelly twisted and in pitiful torsion. If you go to Florence, you must see it.
