Example sentences for: pisano

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  • In the neighboring Cathedral Museum (Museo dell’Opera Metropolitana), Giovanni Pisano’s original sculptures for the Duomo’s façade have strangely distorted poses because they were meant to be seen from below.

  • Inside, there was no reason either for local Giovanni Pisano to show false modesty about his superbly sculpted 14th-century marble pulpit (left aisle), arguably the cathedral’s masterpiece.

  • Begun in 1060, the Duomo San Martino, has a Pisan-style three-storied façade with a Descent from the Cross carved by Nicola Pisano over the north door.

  • The exterior’s majestic black- and white-striped marble banding surrounding Giovanni Pisano’s three intricately carved portals presents that quintessential Italian preference for pictorial qualities over mere architecture.

  • Nicola Pisano’s intricately carved and recently restored 13th-century Fontana Maggiore (Great Fountain) has long been everyone’s favorite point of rendezvous, in the shadow of the 14th-century cathedral.


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