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Basing his early endeavours on these specimensof genuine classical Greek art, there resulted his wonderful pulpitsat Pisa and Siena, and his matchlessly graceful little Madonnasdenote the Hellenistic sentiment for beauty. His work was a markeddeparture from the Byzantine and Romanesque work which constitutedItalian sculpture up to that period. An examination of his designsand methods proves his immense originality. By profession he wasan architect. Of his pulpit in Siena Charles Eliot Norton sp...eakswith much appreciation. Alluding to the lions used as bases to itscolumns, he says: "These are the first realistic representationsof living animals which the mediæval revival of art has produced;and in vivacity and energy of rendering, and in the thoroughlyartistic treatment of leonine spirit and form, they have neverbeen surpassed. " It is usually claimed that one may learn much ofthe rise of Gothic sculpture by studying the models in the SouthKensington Museum. In a foot-note to such a statement in a bookedited by Ruskin, the indignant editor has observed, "You cannotdo anything of the kind.
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