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Historical Archive: Pisa cathedral pulpit

1302-1310
signed by Giovanni Pisano, 1311 (Pisan calendar)
Carrara marble with porphyry columns, 461 cm high (181.5 inches)
damaged by 1595 fire, dismantled in 1602
rebuilt 1630 with changes
reconstructed by Péleo Bacci in 1926
remade in 1926: round base, upper cornice, at least 3 columns

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location in cathedral interior, which has its own page
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full, Magi side
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full, Presentation side, with people for scale
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full, Presentation/Massacre side, modern stairs in back
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Annunciation, Visitation, birth and naming of John the Baptist
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Nativity and Shepherds with framing elements
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Nativity: Shepherds
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Nativity: dogs, sheep, goat; part of Tree of Jesse
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Christ trampling lion, dragon, asp, and basilisk, with Tree of Jesse
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Adoration of the Magi; inscription
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Magi: arrival
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Magi: adoration
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Magi: dream
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Magi: attendants and pack animals
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Magi: Black attendant
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Presentation in the Temple, on left/behind: people with candles; Flight into Egypt; slightly oblique from left
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Presentation and Flight, with framing elements, inscription; on left 19th-c. prophet
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Presentation and Flight, frontal
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Presentation, center
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Flight into Egypt
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Massacre of the Innocents
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Massacre: Herod
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Massacre: soldiers, mothers, and children
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eagle lectern
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Betrayal, Mocking, Scourging
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prophet between Scourging and Crucifixion
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Crucifixion
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Crucifixion, center with Ecclesia and Synagoga
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Last Judgment: the Saved
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Saved, upper left from lower right
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Saved, oblique from right
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Saved, with flash, through stairs
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Last Judgment: the Damned
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Damned: Satan
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inscription; sibyl, prophets, central capital
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console, prophet, sibyl
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Hercules/Fortitude with lion and cubs, profile from left. Adult lion 1926.
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Hercules/Fortitude, frontal
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Hercules/Fortitude, oblique from right
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Hercules/Fortitude, profile from right
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Hercules/Fortitude, center, profile from right
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Ecclesia
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pedestal of Ecclesia: Fortitude with lion, eagle
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pedestal of Ecclesia: Fortitude and Prudence
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pedestal of Ecclesia: eagle, Prudence
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pedestal of Ecclesia: Justice, eagle, Temperance
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St. Michael; in background Christ as judge, profile
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Christ as judge. Seraph at top 1926.
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pedestal of Christ: Matthew and symbol, with Nello di Falcone, administrator of cathedral works
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pedestal of Christ: Luke
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pedestal of Christ: Mark and John and symbols, with poss. Giovanni Pisano
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Theological Virtues
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Theological Virtues, capital
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pedestal of Theological Virtues: Liberal Arts Philosophy, Grammar, Dialectic
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lion with horse, profile
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lion with horse, frontal
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lion with calf