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The [[Pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery|famous pulpit]] was sculpted between 1255-1260 by [[Nicola Pisano]], father of [[Giovanni Pisano|Giovanni]], the artist who produced the pulpit in the Duomo. The scenes on the pulpit, and especially the classical form of the nude [[Hercules]], show Nicola Pisano's qualities as the most important precursor of [[Italian Renaissance sculpture]] by reinstating antique representations: surveys of the [[Italian Renaissance]] often begin with the year 1260, the year that Nicola Pisano dated this pulpit.
Constructed on the same unstable sand as the tower and cathedral, the Baptistery leans 0.6 degrees toward the cathedral. Originally the shape of the Baptistery, according to the project by Diotisalvi, was different. It was perhaps similar to the church of [[Santo Sepolcro (Pisa)|Holy Sepulchre]] in Pisa, with its pyramidal roof. After the death of the architect, Nicola Pisano continued the work, changing the style to the more modern Gothic one. Also, an external roof was added giving the shape of a [[cupola]]. As a side effect of the two roofs, the pyramidal inner one and the domed external one, the interior is acoustically perfect,<ref>[http://www.stilepisano.it/Pisa_eco_del_battistero.htm Article about acoustics in the baptistery (in Italian)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080331184828/http://www.stilepisano.it/Pisa_eco_del_battistero.htm |date=2008-03-31 }}</ref> making of that space a [[Resonance chamber|resonating chamber]].{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=May 2024}}
The exterior of the dome is clad with lead sheets on its east side (facing the cathedral) and red tiles on its west side (facing the sea), giving a half grey and half red appearance from the south.<ref>[http://opapisa.it/en/square-of-miracles/baptistery Opera della Primaziale Pisana]</ref>
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