Baptistery of San Giovanni Battista, piazza del Duomo
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The pulpit by Nicola Pisano (1260) is considered the most representative work of art of the Italian thirteenth century. The work stands on seven columns, supported by column-bearing lions and shows in its panels the life of Christ from the Annunciation to the Final judgement. The figures move like Roman statues, the Virgin lies as a Roman matron, clear reference to the sarcophagi of the Campo Santo (Phaedra and Ippolito). On the columns Virtues and Prophets have a dialogue like in the Parnassus, anticipating the typical lines of the Renaissance, such as the Hercules, or Fortress, repeatedly compared with Michelangelo's David.