English: His head is crowned, he wears old-fashioned shoes and he is covered with a rich robe embroidered on the chest and with a large cloak; with his hands he plucks the strings of a zither and his lips are parted, perhaps in the gesture of intoning the Psalms. The sculpture was commissioned to Bernardo Ciuffagni in 1427 and it was set in the unfinished facade of the cathedral. In 1433 the patrons were not satisfied with Ciuffagni's work and asked him to complete it by sculpting the crown at his own expense.