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Head (after Pisano's Prudence)

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Head (after Pisano's Prudence)
Head (after Pisano's Prudence)
Head (after Pisano's Prudence)

Head (after Pisano's Prudence)

Date1981
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 81(81)
Date Order NumberAG 81.078
Mediachalk, charcoal
PaperT.H. Saunders watercolour paper
Dimensionspaper: 282 x 239 mm
Signature

charcoal l.r. Moore, undated

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: acquired 1987
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Moore based this sketch on the head of Prudence by Andrea Pisano (panel 28 of his Baptistery Doors), executed between 1330 and 1336. The photograph used is from 'The Florence Baptistery Doors', photographs David Finn, introduction by Kenneth Clark, Thame

See comments on HMF 80(255). This drawing is based on the head of Prudence from Panel XXVIII of the South Door of the Florence Baptistery, by Andrea Pisano.

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