The Cranky Professor on “The world’s ugliest pulpit”
February 26th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker
Cranky Professor, who carries the subheading “You type, and I tell you why 4,500 years of written history shows you’re wrong,” posts on “the front of the cathedral in Pisa” which “may be the worst piece of 20th century religious art I’ve ever seen”:
Mind you, it’s all marble. To make matters worse, it’s within yards of one of the lovelier pulpits, by Giovanni Pisano from around 1300 … look at those horrible shapes in the new pulpit! And the colors? What were they thinking? Oh, well - it looks like it will be easy to remove, someday.
Image: Michael Tinkler (who seems to be CP), flickr.