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 62
rgin in the Nativity panel at Siena,upon which it must be remembered Giovanniprobably worked. The male figures in theirheavy draperies personify the stateliest of sena-tors. It is an idyll in stone, but in Giovannisrendering of the same episode we find livelyaction and an approach to verisimilitude… … NICCOLAS FOLLOWERS 45 nurse who tries the warmth of the bath withher fingers before putting the child into it. Giovanni repeated this episode in the Nativitypanel of the pulpit which he executed in 1310for the Duomo at Pisa. This was overthrownin the fire of 1595, but some of the finest ofthe…
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