. A new history of painting in Italy, from the II to the XVI century; . olemn and grander forms of his teachers. Yet in this realism therewas as yet no trace of vulgarity. As to polish and fine workmanship,Nino surpassed all his predecessors. One of the Virgins on the pinnaclesof La Spina, as well as the angel and Virgin Annunciate at each side ofa picture by Fra Bartolommeo in the church of S. Caterina of Pisa, isalso by him or some of his pupils.^ Animation and cheerfulness are in 1 [Of. Langton Douglas, op. cit, supra.] ^ This Madonna Vasari assigns to Giovanni; see antea, and Vasari, vol.
. A new history of painting in Italy, from the II to the XVI century; . olemn and grander forms of his teachers. Yet in this realism therewas as yet no trace of vulgarity. As to polish and fine workmanship,Nino surpassed all his predecessors. One of the Virgins on the pinnaclesof La Spina, as well as the angel and Virgin Annunciate at each side ofa picture by Fra Bartolommeo in the church of S. Caterina of Pisa, isalso by him or some of his pupils.^ Animation and cheerfulness are in 1 [Of. Langton Douglas, op. cit, supra.] ^ This Madonna Vasari assigns to Giovanni; see antea, and Vasari, vol. i,,p. 274. * Vasari, vol. ii., p. 43. * The rose and part of the hand are broken ol¥. 5 Vasari, vol. ii., p. 44. • u j 6 These figures, which, according to Vasari (vol. u., p. 44), were inscribed : A di primo Febbraio 1370 : queste figure feco Nino figluolo dAndreaPisano, can hardly have been executed at the time stated ; since it is provedthat Nino was dead in 13G8. They were first in the church of S. Zenone JABAL THE SHEPHERDAndrea Pisano. Camparule, NINO PISANO 293 the face of the angel, but the length, slenderness, and affected bend ofthe frame are particularly characteristic of the sculptor. In the hairand vestments the old gilding and tinting may still be seen.^ TheAnnunciation, carved in wood and rotting neglected in a store-roomof the same church, is also very probably by Nino,^ who, according toa funeral inscription quoted by Vasari, was an ivory worker, and isproved by documents to have been also a goldsmith.^ The only remaining monument produced by Nino, and one inwhich he preserved with most fidelity the Giottesque feeling is atomb erected in honour of the Dominican, Simone Salterelli, to theleft of the entrance in S. Caterina of Pisa. On a base adorned with three bas-reliefs, a bier is placed within atabernacle, supported on pillars, spanned by trefoil arches. Twoangels raise a curtain at each side ; and on the slab lies the body ofSimone, who died Ar
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