The Palace and Park by Phillips, Forbes, Latham, Owen, Scharf, and Shenton

[Born at Pisa, in Italy, 1205-7. Died at Sienna, in Italy, about 1290.] The early reviver of Sculpture in Italy; memorable for being the first Italian artist who quitted the dry, stiff, traditional forms which had long prevailed, and founded a school based upon Truth and Nature. His finest productions preceded those of Cimabue; and it was said of him that “he was the first to see the light and to follow it.” His great work is the marble pulpit, with bas-reliefs from Scripture, in the Baptistery at Pisa. [By Alessandro d’Este. Vasari mentions a Bust of him by his son Giovanni, from which this may have been taken.]