# Charity [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TINO DI CAMAINO]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Marble, height 136 cm ## Commentary After the completion of Bishop Antonio degli Orsi's tomb Tino executed a number of closely related sculptures such as the statue of Charity of unknown provenance in the Museo Bardini. This heroic figure, an earth-mother type, is one of the first portrayals of Charity nursing. Shallowly carved in a plane and with an unfinished back, it was probably meant for a niche. Her casual posture has never been properly ascertained, and it is usually stated that she is sitting. ## Related artworks - [An Angel holding a curtain]() - [An Angel holding a curtain]() - [Angel]() - [Anjou tombs]() - [Caryatid]() - [Charity]() - [Fragments from the Baptistery]() - [Head of St John the Baptist]() - [Head of St John the Baptist]() - [Madonna and Child \(detail\)]() - [Madonna and Child]() - [Madonna and Child with Saints]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()