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The angels once formed part of a tomb monument, and would have stood at the sides as though pulling back curtains to reveal the effigy. Tino di Camaino (ca. 1280 - ca. 1337) was an  Italian sculptor, working in Siena, Pisa, Florence and Naples for some of the most powerful and important patrons of his day. He was also the most important and inventive sculptor of funerary monuments in Tuscany.","physicalDescription":"This carved marble relief shows an angel holding a curtain and dressed in the alb of a deacon. The angel is shown with his head in right profile, and his body turned to the right. The curtain has a decorated edge and is held across the body in the angel’s proper right.  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Valentiner (1923), an attribution which has been accepted by most scholars since (but see Weinberger 1937). Tino di Camaino, born in ca. 1280 in Siena, is documented as a sculptor in Pisa after 1311, where he was commissioned with sculpting the monument for Emperor Henry VII in Pisa Cathedral. Later, he worked in Siena (1318-20) and Florence (1321-23). In 1323-24 Tino di Camaino relocated to Naples, where he remained in the service of  the Angevin court until his death in 1337.\n","historicalContext":"This relief and its companion piece (mus. no 7566-1861) originally formed part of a tomb monument and would have stood at its sides as if  pulling back curtains to reveal the effigy of the deceased, similar in type to the angels on the slightly earlier tomb of Cardinal Guillaume de  Braye (d. 1282) by Arnolfo di Cambio, still in situ in San Domenico in Orvieto (Italy). Some scholars have suggested that the angels may have belonged to the monument of Antonio d'Orso, Bishop of Florence (d. 1321) in Florence Cathedral, but it is more likely that they formed part of another, now dismantled Florentine tomb of about the same date.","briefDescription":"Relief, Angel holding a curtain, carved marble, attributed to Tino di Camaino; Tuscany, ca. 1320.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"'Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1861', in <i>Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, Arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition</i>. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, vol. 1, p. 35"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Wilhelm R. Valentiner, 'Studies in Italian Gothic Plastic Art. 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