biography
pronunciation:
[peesahnoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1250–c.1320)
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| biography:
| Sculptor and architect, born in Pisa, W Italy, the son of Nicola Pisano. He worked with his father on the pulpit in Siena, the fountain in Perugia, and the facade of Siena Cathedral (1284–6) on which were positioned a number of expressive life-size statues. He also sculpted figures for the entrance to the Baptistery at Pisa (now in the Museo Nazionale), and made a number of free-standing Madonnas, the most famous of which is in the Arena Chapel, Padua. Undoubtedly the greatest sculptor of his day in the Italian Gothic tradition, his innovations pointed the way to Renaissance sculptural ideals. |
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