# Piccolomini Altar \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TORRIGIANO, Pietro]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Marble, life-size ## Commentary Torrigiano's earliest surviving documented work identified as 'Pietro Turrisani' is the marble life-size statue of St Francis carved by 5 June 1501 for Cardinal Francesco Todeschini–Piccolomini for the Piccolomini Altar in Siena Cathedral \(in situ; was <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/2/0siena.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/2/0siena.html">completed by Michelangelo</a>\). Piccolomini was Cardinal Protector of England from 1492 to 1503, when he was elected Pope as Pius III \(d. 1503\). He maintained close contacts with the Tudor court, and he and his family were probably instrumental in securing Torrigiano's English appointment. ## Related artworks - [Bishop John Fisher]() - [Bishop John Fisher]() - [Bust of Christ]() - [Bust of Santa Fina]() - [Bust of Sir Gilbert Talbot]() - [Effigy of Henry VII \(detail\)]() - [Effigy of Henry VII]() - [Head of Christ]() - [Monument to Henry VII \(detail\)]() - [Monument to Henry VII \(detail\)]() - [Monument to Henry VII \(detail\)]() - [Monument to Henry VII]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()