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Online #4
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- Where baptisms were performed, and an individual was welcomed into the Christian
community. Richly decorated places also because of their importance.
- Historiated reliefs, showing narratives from the life of Christ and separated by columns
- Hercules
- Classical antiquity
- Carved earlier and further away. Different schools of sculpture. More stylized figured,
proportions are dictated by their structure, don’t seem to be standing or Interacting.
Nicola moves very strongly
9. Back to Nicola Pisano and the pulpit: Adoration of the Magi: summarize the description: (3
POINTS)
- Three kinds coming to visit the newborn Christ, moves away from Romanesque, fold of
drapery, and is definitely moving away from gothic sculpture.
- It was incorporated into the Medieval walls and buildings of the city so there was a sense
of classical antiquity. It is now rediscovered, and it is important because it shows a
connection to the reliefs from earlier.
11. Giovanni Pisano – the son of Nicola: Pulpit created in 1301. The massacre of the innocent’s
panel: summarize lecture: (3 POINTS)
- The structure is essentially the same. There are colored marble columns with capitals,
allegorical figures on top of the capitals below reliefs that make up the low walls. One
difference is that the corners that separate the reliefs are no longer small columns, but
they are figures. The Massacre of the innocents shows when Herod orders that all newly
born male children in Bethlehem have to be executed.