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Sculpture in the Gothic Period.
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and marble the spiritual conceptions of Giotto, the great master of sacred painting. Inspired by religious fervour, and with a vivid sense of the realities of the spiritual world, they produced figures of good and evil spirits, and idealised human forms full of terrible beauty or suffering. The Descent from the Cross, in the cathedral of Lucca, is
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Fig. 100.—The Adoration of the Kings. From the pulpit in the Baptistery at Pisa. By Niccolò Pisano.
one of Niccolò's earliest works, and gives promise of the great original power subsequently displayed in his famous marble pulpit[1] in the Baptistery of Pisa. It was executed in 1260, and is covered with reliefs (Fig. 100), representing
- ↑ A fine cast may be studied in the South Kensington Museum
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