Head of Christ

Works attributed to Torrigiano and his workshop in England include the marble and polychrome terracotta wall tomb of Dr John Yonge, or Young (d. 1516) for the Rolls Chapel, Chancery Lane, the first entirely Renaissance-style monument in England; the terracotta bust of Sir Gilbert Talbot (d. 1517; Victoria and Albert Museum, London); the elaborate marble and polychrome terracotta wall tomb of Dean John Colet (d. 1519) in Old St Paul’s (destroyed 1666); and the marble head and painted limestone roundel of Christ the Redeemer (c. 1522; before 1532 set in the western exterior wall of Abbot Islip’s chapel, Westminster Abbey; since the 19th century Wallace Collection, London).