GIOVANNI and PACIO DA FIRENZE
(documented 1343-1345)

Monument to Robert of Anjou, King of Sicily (detail)

1343-45
Marble, height of sarcophagus 170 cm
Santa Chiara, Naples

This tomb has as its model the Mary of Hungary monument of Tino di Camaino, and it is from this work that the pigmented sarcophagus, with its seated figures beneath Gothic canopies and the angels drawing curtains derive.




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