History of mediæval art . fo de Cambio,an architect who had been trained in the school of Niccolo Pisano,and had profited by the experience of this master as well as by thatof Giovanni Pisano, the latter of whom was the designer of theCampo Santo at Pisa, A. D. 1278 to 1283, and of the facade of theCathedral of Siena, begun in 1284. Arnolfos extraordinary ability,however, was chiefly manifested in the construction of the Cathe-dral of Florence {Figs. $66 and 367), which was undertaken at about ITALY. 571 the same time as S. Croce. The supremacy of the Gothic style, atleast in Northern Italy, w
History of mediæval art . fo de Cambio,an architect who had been trained in the school of Niccolo Pisano,and had profited by the experience of this master as well as by thatof Giovanni Pisano, the latter of whom was the designer of theCampo Santo at Pisa, A. D. 1278 to 1283, and of the facade of theCathedral of Siena, begun in 1284. Arnolfos extraordinary ability,however, was chiefly manifested in the construction of the Cathe-dral of Florence {Figs. $66 and 367), which was undertaken at about ITALY. 571 the same time as S. Croce. The supremacy of the Gothic style, atleast in Northern Italy, was determined by this Florentine edifice. Through the before-mentioned monuments, all referable to thethirteenth century, a peculiar treatment of the architectural forms ofthe North had been developed in Italy. The style thus determinedis known as the Italian Gothic. It is to be remarked that the ar-rangement of plan remained almost wholly unaltered, continuingbasilical or Romanic. Gothic forms were combined with the dom-.
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