Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa., New York, Flood and Vincent · leaf 250
talian sculpture preceded bynearly fifty years the art of Giotto, and undoubtedly 234 ITALIAN GOTHIC SCULPTURE. 235 made the first break with the formalism of the Byzan-tine style or the crude barbarism of the more native artof Italy (Fig. 92). It was distinctly a great and phe-nomenal genius,… … Fig. 144.—The Campo Santo. Pisa. As illustrated by the views (Figs. 126, 127), the styleof Nicolo was founded on the antique. Some of theGreco-Eoman sarcophagi, from which he made hisstudies, are still preserved in Pisa. His work, however,is simple and naive, original and profoundly thought-ful—as…
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