Искусства и ремесла Средневековья

Sculpture in Stoвe

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а very pious turn, who, nevertheless, committed а cшious theft, ,Yhich was never discoveгed until his own death-bed confession. Не absconded witl1 а bone of St. Dominic, ,vhicl1 hc kept for private devotions all his subsequent life ! An old chronicleг says, naively: " If piety сап absolve from theft, Fra Guglielmo is to Ье pгaised, though ncveг to Ье imitated." Andrea Pisano was Nicola's greatest scholar, though not his sоп. Не took the name of his master afteг tЬе medireval custom. His work was laгgely in bronze, апd the earlier gates of tl1e Baptiste1·y in Floгence are Ьу hiш. ,v e have already alluded to tl1e later gates Ьу Ghiberti, ,vhen speaking of bronze. Andrea had the honour to teach the celebrated Oгcagna, - more paintcr tЬan sculptor, - whose most noted ,voгk iн this line � as the Tabernacle at 01· San Michele. Among tl1e loYeliest of the figures sculptured Ьу the Pisani are the angels standiпg in а group, Ыowing truшpets, on the pulpit at Pistoja, the work of Giovanni. Ашопg Nicola's pupils ,,·еге his son Giovanni, Donatello, Arnolfo di Camblo, and 1,0l'enzo Maitani, ,vho executed the delightful sculptures on the fa<;ade of the Catl1edral of Orvieto, - perhaps the most interesting set of bas-reliefs iп detail of the Early Reнaissance, although in general symmetгical " bossiness " of effect, so шпсh approved Ьу Ruskiп, they are very unevcп. In this respect tЬеу соте гather tшder the head of realistic thaп of decOl'ative агt. Loгenzo Maitani was а genнine leader of his guild of craftsшen, and superintended thc laгge body of architects