Tuscan sculptors: their lives, works, and times. With illustrations from original drawings and photographs (1864)
Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886 · London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green · leaf 96
13 NIC COLA PISANO. and she took the bleeding hands of her Son as they hung down, and clasped them in her own, and kissed them tenderly.’ 1 In the bas-relief, the two Marys kneel behind the standing figure of the Virgin, who holds one of our Lord’s arms; and on the opposite side, behind St. John,… … The Deposition. (By Niccola Pisano. Circa 1234.) figures, in front of whom kneels a man, who seems to be holding the crown of thorns. The centre is occupied by the grandly conceived form of Joseph of Arimathsea, who sustains the drooping, lifeless body of our Lord in his arms, while Nicodemus…
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