Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze (1910)
Perry, John Tavenor, 1842-1915 · London : G. Allen & Sons · leaf 290
the end of thetwelfth century by an architect who was engaged on the Cam-panile of Pisa, and who was probably a Greek from Sicily, butwho called himself Bonnano da Pisa. Most of the doors whichhe is supposed to have made for the Duomo of Pisa perishedin the fire of 1596, but one, of which we give… … Pi ATE XLIIBRONZE DOORS, PLSA BRONZE DOORS 193 the grace and refinement of the doors of Barisanus. A mostnoticeable characteristic of the work is the orientality of thetrees and architecture, from which perhaps the idea originatedthat if he was a Greek he was one from Sicily. The doors which…
