Tino da Camaino, born in Siena, the…

Tino da Camaino, born in Siena, the son of the architect Camaino di Crescentino, had been a pupil of Giovanni Pisano, whom he helped work on the façade of the Cathedral of Siena.

Later Tino followed his master to Pisa, where in 1311 he became responsible for the work on the Cathedral.

Four years later he executes the funerary monument of Emperor Henry VII at the Campo Sant, in Pisa.

This work displays the influence on Gothic funerary sculpture of the Early Christian column sarcophagus, derived from Greek versions exported to Rome from Asia Minor during the Classical period.