ARNOLFO DI CAMBIO
(b. ca. 1245, Colle di Valdelse, d. ca. 1310, Firenze)

Thirsting Woman

1281
Marble, 36 cm
Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia

This figure - the stark embodiment of poverty and thirst - is one of the surviving pieces of a fountain, made in Perugia and destroyed in 1308.