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Article: Art in the pulpit: Helen Geddes welcomes a handsomely illustrated account of the three pulpits by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano that are among the great masterpieces of medieval sculpture.(Nicola and Giovanni Pisano: The Pulpits: Pious Deviation, Pious Diversion)(Book review)
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- October 1, 2006
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Pious Devotion, Pious Diversion. Nicola and Giovanni Pisano: The Pulpits
Anita Fiderer Moskowitz Harvey Miller, $156/125 [euro]
ISBN 1 872501 49 4
Between the late 1250s and 1311, the sculptor Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni created four carved marble pulpits for the Tuscan cities of Pisa, Pistoia and Siena. The first of these, for the Baptistery at Pisa, broke new ground in terms of pulpit design, being a polygonal structure rich in narrative imagery, while the final one, for Pisa Cathedral, in terms of structural and iconographic complexity, proved to be a design watershed, and was never seemingly superseded. With their vivid narrative ...