Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
Father and Son
Distributed for Hirmer Publishers
989 pages
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2 volume set, 500 halftones
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9 x 11 1/2
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© 2012
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Volume 1
Introduction
Critical fortune
The gigantic contrast between father and son
More a genius than his father
The new Daedalus
The learned scholar in art
Precursor of the art of the Renaissance
Historical curiosities
“If Nicola’s Mary really resembled a Juno and his Christ a Hercules, what would have been new in that?”
“From the pulpit of Siena the word of the new art is proclaimed”
The pulpit of Siena—A work by Giovanni?
Research perspectives
The dialogue with the masters of antiquity
Aspects of social history
Iconography
The study of social history
Documents concerning the pulpit of Siena
The payments
Rhythms of work
The total earnings of Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
Giovanni as “caput magistrorum” of the Opera del Duomo of Pisa
Giovanni attempts to equal his father’s work rhythm
Giovanni renounces a more comfortable dwelling
Documents concerning Giovanni Pisano’s activity as "caput magistrorum" of the Opera del Duomo of Pisa
Documentary appendix
The artist as iconographer
Foreword
Micro-iconography
Artes liberales
Testimonia ex prophetis et gentibus
Bestiarium
Vide lignum viride
Hercules
“Uno polpito alto e mangnio”
The dialogue
Foreword
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
Arnolfo di Cambio
“Gothic counterrevolution?
The reception of the antique in thirteenth-century aesthetics
Art criticism ‘with brush and chisel’: how painters, sculptors and goldsmiths in the thirteenth and
fourteenth century received the art of Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
Bibliography
Volume 2: The Plates
The dialogue between Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
Measurements
Arnolfo di Cambio
Gothic counterrevolution?
The reception of the antique
Introduction
Critical fortune
The gigantic contrast between father and son
More a genius than his father
The new Daedalus
The learned scholar in art
Precursor of the art of the Renaissance
Historical curiosities
“If Nicola’s Mary really resembled a Juno and his Christ a Hercules, what would have been new in that?”
“From the pulpit of Siena the word of the new art is proclaimed”
The pulpit of Siena—A work by Giovanni?
Research perspectives
The dialogue with the masters of antiquity
Aspects of social history
Iconography
The study of social history
Documents concerning the pulpit of Siena
The payments
Rhythms of work
The total earnings of Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
Giovanni as “caput magistrorum” of the Opera del Duomo of Pisa
Giovanni attempts to equal his father’s work rhythm
Giovanni renounces a more comfortable dwelling
Documents concerning Giovanni Pisano’s activity as "caput magistrorum" of the Opera del Duomo of Pisa
Documentary appendix
The artist as iconographer
Foreword
Micro-iconography
Artes liberales
Testimonia ex prophetis et gentibus
Bestiarium
Vide lignum viride
Hercules
“Uno polpito alto e mangnio”
The dialogue
Foreword
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
Arnolfo di Cambio
“Gothic counterrevolution?
The reception of the antique in thirteenth-century aesthetics
Art criticism ‘with brush and chisel’: how painters, sculptors and goldsmiths in the thirteenth and
fourteenth century received the art of Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
Bibliography
Volume 2: The Plates
The dialogue between Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
Measurements
Arnolfo di Cambio
Gothic counterrevolution?
The reception of the antique
Review Quotes
Speculum
“In this monumental work, Seidel brings together his lifelong engagement with two of the most impressive Italian sculptors of the Middle Ages, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano. Never before—nor since—have a father and son met on an artistic level in quite this way, and this two-volume set goes beyond a typical biography to explore their fascinating collaboration.”
Sculpture Journal
“This massive and lavishly illustrated book is oriented around the clarification of a single problem: the artistic relationship of Nicola and Giovanni Pisano. . . . Father and Son brings together in one place many insights from [Seidel’s] wide-ranging research. As such, it will be invaluable to every student of the field.”
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