Séminaire : “Nicola and Giovanni Pisano at the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia”, Londres, Birkbeck College, Keynes Library (et en ligne), le 19 Mars 2025, de 17h à 18h30 (heure locale)
At this Murray Seminar, Laura Jacobus will share her research on: A ‘Most Pleasing Flower among Equally Excellent Sculptors’: Nicola and Giovanni Pisano at the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia The Fontana Maggiore of Perugia, one of the best-preserved secular monuments of medieval Europe, is decorated by more than fifty sculptures. Its creators, Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni, were the two star sculptors of thirteenth-century Italy. This seminar paper takes a fresh look at the...