Angel from a Tomb (1330–50): Art, History and Details

Angel from a Tomb (1330–50) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Tino di Camaino (Italian, c. 1285–1337).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Tino da Camaino was active in Siena, Pisa, and Florence after 1311 where he established his reputation as an important and gifted sculptor. In 1323 he was summoned to the Angevin court at Naples, probably by King Robert of Anjou to work on the sepulchral monument of the king's daughter-in-law, Catherine of Austria. During the remainder of his life, Tino created a remarkable series of tomb sculptures in Naples. This pair of marble angels most likely represents the work of a member of Tino's workshop produced for one of these Neapolitan tombs, either during the final years of the master's life, or else independently after Tino's death in 1337.

Object facts

• Title: Angel from a Tomb
• Date: 1330–50
• Creator attribution: Tino di Camaino (Italian, c. 1285–1337)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: marble
• Dimensions: Overall: 99.7 x 63.2 x 20.3 cm (39 1/4 x 24 7/8 x 8 in.)
• Collection: MED - Gothic
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1925.1343

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

Further reading listed by the museum

• W. M. M. “The Two Marble Angels in the John Huntington Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 13, no. 3 (March 1926): 50–54.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.

View the collection record

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