Head of a Saint or a Prophet in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Head of a Saint or Prophet
about 1320–25
Tino di Camaino, Italian, about 1280–1337

Dimensions: 33.0 x 24.1 x 27.9 cm (13 x 9 1/2 x 11 in.)

Material: Stone; marble

Classification: Sculpture
Type: figure

Accession Number: 47.1447

On view in the Museum Council Gallery (Europe, 1000–1400 / Medieval) - 254

This head has recently been attributed to Tino di Camaino, a sculptor who worked in Siena, Florence, and Naples. It may be a fragment of a monumental sculpture that was once placed over a door to the baptistery in Florence. Although the nose is broken off, the fine working of the face and the deep drilling of the beard emphatically capture the character and expression of the figure, which would have been clearly legible to onlookers on the street below.

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/head-of-a-saint-or-prophet...