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from probably around 1200 is facing the facade of the cathedral. The door is flanked by two columns with foliage decoration, a direct copy of a classical model. Engaged with the portal frame are two smaller three-quarter columns with a simpler, less deep floral ornamentation. The inner jambs between
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Constructed on the same unstable sand as the tower and cathedral, the
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dances before Herod, his subsequent beheading and his burial. The architraves are probably by the same artists who also did the foiled columns and the reliefs on the jambs.
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The largest baptistery in Italy, it is 54.86 m high, with a diameter of 34.13 m. The Pisa
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Only the north portal has also figurative decoration on its architrave, picturing the
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Perono
Cacciafoco, Francesco. The Undeciphered Inscription of the Baptistery of Pisa.
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Perono
Cacciafoco, Francesco. The Undeciphered Inscription of the Baptistery of Pisa.
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Pasini, Daria. Ancora sull’epigrafe con triplice invocazione all’arcangelo
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often begin with the year 1260, the year that Nicola Pisano dated this pulpit.
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each pair of columns are decorated each with eleven figurative
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