Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Prophet

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title: 
Prophet
Image View: 
Detail, upper body and face, from the right, the head gear is described in Exodus 28:36-38
Creator: 
Nino Pisano (Italian sculptor, ca. 1315-ca. 1368)
Location: 
repository: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note: 
Piazza del Duomo 9
GPS: 
+43.772333+11.256222
Date: 
ca. 1337 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Fourteenth century; Late Gothic
Work Type 1: 
sculpture (visual work)
Classification: 
Sculpture and Installations
Material: 
marble
Technique: 
carving (processes)
Subjects: 
human figure; Old Testament and Apocrypha
Description: 
Nino carried out his first works in the Cathedral Works of Florence under his father Andrea’s influence, beginning 1334. Nino eventually created eleven sculptures for the Campanile. In 1337 when Andrea was Master of the Cathedral Works, Nino created the four life-size statues of King David, the Eritraean and Tiburtine Sibyls, and this work, an unnamed Prophet (now in the Duomo museum). (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection: 
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier: 
7A1-PISAN-OD-PR-A03
Rights: 
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