Five Italian shrines; an account of the monumental tombs of S. Augustine at Pavia, S. Dominic at Bologna, S. Peter Martyr at Milan, S. Donato at Arezzo, and of Orcagna's tabernacolo at Florence, with a prefatory essay on Tuscan sculpture (1906)
Waters, W. G. (William George), 1844-1928 · London : J. Murray · leaf 50
e of the westdoors of the cathedral at Lucca, and give the year1233 as the date of its execution, but contemporarycriticism, judging by the ripened finish of thecomposition, allots it to a much later period, andgives the earliest place to the Pisan pulpit, whichbears the date of 1260. In 1268 he… … c ^ £ 1 THE PISAN PULPIT 37 design and freedom of handling, is probably ofthe same period as the Sienese pulpit.1 Niccolas style in the reliefs of the Pisan pulpitshows very strongly the influence of classic study,and it is unimportant whether he found his firstmodels in the Meleager sarcophagus of…
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