. Val d'Arno ten lectures on the Tuscan art directly antecedent to the Florentine year of victories; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1873. he duomo of Milan, only to putthe change well before your eyes, because youall know that building so well. The duomo ofMilan is of entirely bad and barbarous Gothic,but the passion of pinnacle and fret is in it,visibly to you, more than in other will therefore serve to show best what ful-ness of change this pulpit of Niccola Pisanosignifies. In it there is no passion of pinnacle nor offret. You Bee the edges of it, ins
. Val d'Arno ten lectures on the Tuscan art directly antecedent to the Florentine year of victories; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1873. he duomo of Milan, only to putthe change well before your eyes, because youall know that building so well. The duomo ofMilan is of entirely bad and barbarous Gothic,but the passion of pinnacle and fret is in it,visibly to you, more than in other will therefore serve to show best what ful-ness of change this pulpit of Niccola Pisanosignifies. In it there is no passion of pinnacle nor offret. You Bee the edges of it, instead of beingbossed, or knopped, or crocketed, are mould-ings of severest line. No vaulting, no clusteredshafts, no traceries, no fantasies, no perpen-dicular flights of aspiration. Steady pillars,each of one polished block ; useful capitals, onetrefoiled arch between them ; your panel aboveit; thereon your story of the founder of Chris-tianity. The whole standing upon beasts, theybeing indeed the foundation of us, (which Nic-cola knew far better than Mr. Darwin); Eagleto carry your Gospel message—Dove you thinkit ought to be ? Eagle, says Niccola, and not. II. Niccola Pisanos Pulpit, I I. NICHOLAS THE PISAN. 19 as symbol of St. John Evangelist only, but be-hold! with prey between its claws. For theGospel, it is Niccolas opinion, is not altogethera message that you may do whatever you like,and go straight to heaven. Finally, a slab ofmarble, cut hollow a little to bear your book;space enough for you to speak from at ease,—and here is your first architecture of GothicChristianity ! 25. Indignant thunder of dissent from Ger-man doctors,—clamour from French ! and our Treves, and our Strasburg, andour Poictiers, and our Chartres ! And you callthis thing the first architecture of Christianity!Yes, my French and German friends, very finethe buildings you have mentioned are ; and Iam bold to say I love them far better than youdo, for you will run a railroad through a
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