These sculptures of Pisano are thus for us a symbol of what happened in the age of the Revival.

The old world and the new shook hands; Christianity and Hellenism kissed each other.

And yet they still remained antagonistic--fused externally by art, but severed in the consciousness that, during those strange years of dubious impulse, felt the might of both.

Monks leaning from Pisano's pulpit preached the sinfulness of natural pleasure to women whose eyes were fixed on the adolescent beauty of an athlete.

Not far off was the time when Filarete should cast in bronze the legends of Ganymede and Leda for the portals of S.Peter's, when Raphael should mingle a carnival of more than pagan sensuality with Bible subjects in Leo's Loggie, when Guglielmo della Porta should place the naked portrait of Giulia Bella in marble at the feet of Paul III.