Tino di Camaino, Charity (1321)

marble, h. 136 cm
Florence, Museo Bardini

Tino di Camaino has been compared to Ugo Guidi for the compactness of his masses and for the sense of solemnity emanated from his works. All these characteristics derive from the studies of Arnolfo di Cambio.
Even though between Tino and Ugo Guidi there are six centuries and even if the cultural backgrounds are a very long way each from the other, we can notice in Ugo Guidi a far echo deriving from the Gothic sculptor. The iconography of this Charity is the classical iconography of the woman breast-feeding two children. An iconography that we can connect to the motherhood by Guidi, where mothers and children are often represented and where woman's breast become a motherhood symbol.

A project by
Federico Giannini

Museo Ugo Guidi
(Forte dei Marmi)

Associazione Amici
del Museo Ugo Guidi
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