Head of an Angel in Full Face

Taddeo di Bartolo painted this Head of an Angel in Full Face as part of a larger altarpiece composition, from which it was later separated. The fragment preserves Taddeo's characteristic treatment of angelic faces — youthful, idealized, and rendered with the refined Sienese technique descended from Simone Martini. As one of the most prolific Sienese painters of the late Trecento, Taddeo produced major altarpiece commissions for churches across Tuscany, Umbria, and Liguria, maintaining the city's artistic prestige during a period of political decline.

Executed in egg tempera on panel, the angel's face shows delicate layered flesh tones built up through careful hatched brushwork over a green earth underpainting. The luminous complexion and sweetly idealized features demonstrate the refined modeling technique that defined the Sienese school's approach to celestial figures.