hand and Dombrowski cites a Head of an Apostle in the Cripta delle Statue under Siena Cathedral (1317–18) as highly comparable. Christ’s coiffed hair, drawn back in tufts, also appears to have been employed by Tino c. 1313–15 for an Angel of the Annunciation created for the Tomb of Emperor Henry VII of Luxembourg in Pisa; an angel in the Liebieghaus, Frankfurt, from c. 1317–18; and his Erythraean Sibyl (also known as a Caritas) from c. 1322–23 in Florence (fig. 3). He recognizes a strong similarity between the modelling of the mastoids about Christ’s ears and those which appear on the figures of Henry VII (fig. 5) and an accompanying councillor, which were originally conceived for the Emperor’s tomb in Pisa Cathedral. The slender face and high cheekbones of these works appear to exhibit stylistic traits of the ‘French-inspired’ sculptures of Giovanni Pisano from around 1300. This has led Dombrowski to conclude that our Bust of Christ was perhaps finished in Pisa, where Tino succeeded Giovanni as master builder of the Cathedral, after he followed his teacher there in 1297, but before he arrived in Siena and came under the influence of artistic developments in the region. It was in Pisa Cathedral that Tino designed and executed the tomb of Emperor Henry VII of Luxembourg – an early masterpiece of sepulchral sculpture (figs. 5–7). Given the stylistic closeness of this Bust of Christ with effigies of the Emperor and his councillor from this group, and the fact that in Italy during the Trecento busts often formed part of tombs and were generally placed directly under the pinnacle of the funereal monument, Dombrowski suggests that it is possible that our bust once crowned the tomb of Henry VII that was built for the apse of Pisa Cathedral between 1313 and 1315, fragments of which survive in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Pisa.
fig. 4 Tino di Camaino Head of St John the Baptist, c. 1322–23 Marble Museo dell’Opera del Duomo di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence fig.5 Tino di Camaino Effigy of Henry VII, c. 1313–15 Marble, from the funerary monument of Henry VII of Luxembourg formerly in Pisa Cathedral