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This terracotta is undoubtedly a preparatory model for the travertine statue of Saint Mary Magdalene of Pazzi, about three meters high, located on the Northern right arm of Saint Peter’s Square in Rome. The author of this «official» image of the Carmelite saint (Florence 1566-1607), canonized in 1669, is the sculptor, still little known today, Giulio Coscia, who delivered it on August 2, 1703. The importance of this terracotta lies in the fact that it is one of the few preserved modello of this extraordinary undertaking, which had a great echo in Rome where it was imitated on the facades of many churches in the city.

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