Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Pulpit, Pisa Baptistery
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Pulpit, Pisa Baptistery
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Image View:
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Detail, archivolts with trilobe Romanesque arches with inlaid cusps; prophets and the Evangelists in the spandrels and six nearly freestanding figures (two visible, St. John Baptist at center)
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Creator:
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Nicola Pisano (Italian sculptor, active 1258-1278)
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Location:
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repository: Battistero di San Giovanni (Pisa, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Baptistery of St. John
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GPS:
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+43.723333+10.393889
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Date:
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1255-1260 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Late Gothic
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Work Type 1:
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pulpit
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Work Type 2:
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relief (sculpture)
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Work Type 3:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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white and colored marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes); construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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465 cm (height)
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Inscription:
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NICOLA PISANUS
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Relation Work:
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part of Pisa Baptistery
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Subjects:
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architecture; New Testament; Jesus Christ
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Description:
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The baptistery's pulpit bears the signature NICOLA PISANUS and the date 1260 and is his first recorded work. The work constitutes the most accomplished synthesis of French Gothic and Classical elements and incorporates a program of great complexity, using concepts derived from the sermon Civitas Dei, Domus Dei of Federico Visconti, Archbishop of Pisa (reigned 1254-1277), the patron of the pulpit. The pulpit has a complex architecture as well with a variety of triangular, pentagonal, hexagonal, and octagonal forms. Nicola studied classical art including the Roman sarcophagi and Greek vase now in the Camposanto. Vasari credits this work as the beginning of the Renaissance for this reason. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Image Description:
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The six nearly freestanding figures are four Virtues, St. John the Baptist, and St. Michael. (Grove Art Online)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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6A1-PAN-PBP-A40
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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