Artist: Giovanni Pisano
Date: 1314
Size: 12 x 17 cm
Museum: National Gallery of Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Technique: Marble
The head, an example of Italian late Gothic art, is believed to be by Giovanni Pisano who trained under his father Nicola Pisano (c. 1220/1225 - c. 1284) at his workshop, his so-called “botecca”.Style and techniqueIn terms of style and technique the head is reminiscent of the many sculptures appearing in the reliefs and pedestal bases of his principal work: the pulpit at the baptistery in Pisa, which was carve from marble between 1302 and 1310.Recent studies show that the head is presumably from the sepulchral monument, now destroyed, created for Margaret of Luxembourg in 1311.The sculpture
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