Mary Magdalene, another sculpture by Donatello . . .

. . . would have been familiar to Lucrezia, as it stood in the Baptistry next to the Duomo.  According to custom, in Tuscany a cathedral complex consisted of three buildings:  the campanile (bell tower), the baptistry and the church itself.  One could not go into the church until one was first baptized.  This sculpture of the penitent Mary, which Donatello most likely worked on in the period 1445-55, was a potent reminder that inner beauty prevails even when outer beauty fails.  Unlike most sculpture of the time, which was done in bronze or marble, this piece was carved of poplar wood.  It was badly damaged in the Flood of 1966, but after restoration stands in the Opera del Duomo, a separate museum housing many works related to the cathedral complex.