UNKNOWN GOTHIC MASTER, sculptor
(14th century)

Head of a Man

1335-40
Marble, 6,5 x 6 x 2 cm
Budapest Historical Museum, Budapest

This fragment is one of the 110 pieces which were dicovered in 1937-38 at the Margaret Island of Budapest during the excavation of the Dominican Cloister. The fragments were part of the tomb of Margaret, daughter of King Béla IV, a nun who died in the Cloister in 1271. The tomb was made in 1335-40.


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