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Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3

CHAPTER II
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He was a sculptor as well as architect, the assistant of Niccola Pisano at Siena, and the maker of the tomb of Cardinal de Braye at Orvieto.

This tomb is remarkable as the earliest instance of the canopy withdrawn by attendant angels from the dead man's form, afterwards so frequently adopted by the Pisan school.
[17] Giov.

Villani, viii.

26.
[18] See Milizia, vol.i.p.

135.


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