Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence


	Museo dell'Opera del Duomo Located behind the Duomo, this museum houses a number of exceptional sculptures from the campanile, baptistry, and cathedral. The most interesting are on the upper levels, particularly the landing with Michelangelo's Pieta, depicting a painfully expressive Christ, his body collapsed and broken. The sympathetic face of Joseph of Arimathea is the artist's self-portrait. Up another flight of steps to the second floor you come to the playful and joyous cantoria, marble choir stalls carved by Luca della Robbia and Donatello. Below Donatello's cantoria is his wooden statue of an anguished Mary Magdalene. In the center of the last room are the original and restored panels of Ghiberti's bronze doors created for the baptistry. Address: Piazza del Duomo 9 Florence Italy Telephone: +39 (55) 230-2885