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	Andrea Pisano - LoveToKnow 1911
		Pisano about 1300, and worked with him on the sculpture for S. Maria della Spina at Pisa and elsewhere.
		Andrea Pisano, while living in Florence, also produced many important works of marble sculpture, all of which show strongly Giotto's influence.
		Andrea's chief pupil was Andrea di Cione, better known as Orcagna.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Andrea_Pisano (344 words)

	Andrea Pisano
		He was a pupil of Giovanni Pisano, and first learned the trade of a goldsmith, which was of benefit to him in his later work.
		Pisano's mature style was due to the influence of Giotto.
		Andrea Pisano had two sons, Nino and Tommaso, who were also sculptors, but his most distinguished pupil was Andrea da Cione, who is known as Orcagna.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/andrea_pisano.html (276 words)

	Andrea Pisano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pisano then became a pupil of Mino di Giovanni, about 1300, and worked with him on the sculpture for S. Maria della Spina at Pisa and elsewhere.
		Andrea Pisano had two sons, Nino and Tommaso both, especially the former, sculptors of considerable ability.
		Andreas chief pupil was Andrea di Cione, better known as Andrea Orcagna.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrea_Pisano (473 words)

	Giovanni Pisano - LoveToKnow 1911
		Together with Arnolfo del Cambio and other pupils, he developed and extended into other parts of Italy the renaissance of sculpture which in the main was due to his father's talent.
		Niccola, the younger Pisano was summoned between 1270 and 1274 to Naples, where he worked for Charles of Anjou on the Castel Nuovo.
		One of Giovanni's most beautiful architectural works was the little chapel of S. Maria della Spina (now rebuilt, "restored"), on the banks of the Arno in Pisa; the actual execution of this chapel, and the sculpture with which it is adorned, was mostly the work of his pupils.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Giovanni_Pisano (497 words)

	Biography
		He probably came from Pontedera near Pisa (he is sometimes called Andrea da Pontedera), but he is first documented in Florence in 1330, when he received the commission to make a pair of bronze doors for the Baptistery.
		By 1340 Andrea was architect to Florence Cathedral (succeeding Giotto) and the only other works certainly by him or from his workshop are reliefs and statues for the cathedral's campanile.
		In 1347 Andrea was appointed master of works at Orvieto Cathedral, where he was succeeded by his son Nino (d.
	www.wga.hu /bio/p/pisano/andrea/biograph.html (208 words)

	Study Of Art - The Pisani
		Andrea, son of a notary of Pisa, whence his name Pisano, was born in Pontedera, a small town near Pisa.
		Andrea worked also on the sculptures for the façade of the cathedral, removed in 1587.
		Andrea's chief work was on the doors of the Baptistery.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles28/art-study-4.shtml (2005 words)

	Andrea Pisano Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		In 1329 a member of the cloth merchants' guild, which was responsible for the decoration of the Baptistery, was sent to Pisa to study the doors of the Cathedral and later to Venice to secure a bronze founder for the project in Florence.
		The movements, dignified and restrained, spring from the rhythms Andrea established across the surface by deeply folded drapery and graceful, swaying postures.
		Andrea was also responsible for a number of marble reliefs (1337-1340) on the two lowest registers of the Campanile of the Florentine Cathedral (now in the Cathedral Museum); in style they are similar to the bronze doors.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/andrea-pisano (497 words)

	Andrea Pisano
		Andrea Pisano, also known as Andrea da Pontadera, an italian sculptor, was born about 1270, and first learned the trade of a goldsmith.
		He became a pupil of Giovanni Pisano about 1300, and worked with him on the sculpture for S. Maria della Spina at Pisa and elsewhere.
		Andrea Pisano had two sons, Nino and Tommaso -- both, especially the former, sculptors of considerable ability.
	www.nndb.com /people/913/000095628 (373 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Pisano, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was Nicola Pisano's chief assistant on the Siena pulpit, but he soon began to work independently on important tomb sculpture.
		Considered the most important sculptor of the late Romanesque period in N Italy, Antelami was an aesthetic forebear of Nicola and Giovanni Pisano.
		Pisano lifts Pittston Area over Dallas: In first time in role as quarterback, the Patriot leads the way to a shocking victory over the favored Mountaineers.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Pisano, (613 words)

	Pisano, Andrea. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Through Andrea, Italian sculpture came under the influence of the painter and architect Giotto, whom he succeeded as head of the work on the cathedral and the campanile in Florence.
		It is still debated whether the design for the campanile reliefs is to be credited to Giotto or to Andrea.
		Andrea spent his last year in Orvieto, directing work on the facade of the cathedral.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pi/Pisano-A.html (158 words)

	Andrea Pisano (1290 - 1349) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldolla), Jesus and St. John Embracing in the Presence of Saints, 16th century
		Giovanni Andrea Podestý, Allegory With Cupid and Putti, 1640
		Andrea Mantegna, Triumph of Caesar: The Elephants, ca.
	www.wwar.com /masters/p/pisano-andrea.html (532 words)

	Biography
		Andrea Pisano (Andrea da Pontedra), Italian sculptor, born in Pontadera, and probably trained in nearby Pisa.
		Considered the founder of the Florentine school of sculpture, he is best known for his relief panels on the bronze south door (1330-36) of the Florence Baptistery; their narrative scheme and naturalist style were influenced by Giotto's fresco cycles.
		As assistant to Giotto, and from 1340 Giotto's successor as master of the works of the Florence Cathedral, Pisano carved stone reliefs for the lower register of the campanile.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /bio/p/pisano/andrea/biograph.html (144 words)

	Florence Art Guide - The Baptistery Doors
		Andrea divided the two doors into 28 compartments or panels (14 to each door), surrounded by a frame of rosettes and lions' heads.
		This is therefore a "classical" and not a Gothic vision of the narrative, bringing Andrea Pisano closer to Giotto (with whom he was later to work on the Belltower) than his contemporary, Giovanni Pisano, who also bore the same surname.
		Several details hint at the the coming of the Renaissance, especially the approach to some of them (the Dispute of Christ with the Doctors of the Church), and show the trend towards a freer naturalism; the model that was followed however was still based on Andrea Pisano's Gothic style.
	www.mega.it /eng/egui/monu/bo.htm (938 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Pisano (ii): (3) Tommaso Pisano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Son of (1) Andrea Pisano and brother of (2) Nino Pisano.
		He is documented only between 1363 and 1372, but he may have worked earlier with Nino on the tomb of Simone Salterelli in S Caterina, Pisa (the reliefs on the sarcophagus lid, 1342–5), and with his father at Orvieto (the two angels of the Porta del Sacro Corporale, 1347–8).
		Pisano (ii): (1) Andrea Pisano, §2: Pisa and Orvieto
	www.artnet.com /library/06/0679/T067911.asp (369 words)

	Thais - Andrea Pisano - Storie del Battista
		The bronze was cast in the following years by Venetian craftsmen; it was refinished by chisel and gilded by Andrea himself.
		Andrea here reveals a chaste, highly personal style, capable of the most harmonious expression of an event or sentiment.
		Andrea vi palesò uno stile altamente personale, castigato, che esprime in una presentazione armoniosissima l'icastica percezione di un evento o di un sentimento.
	www.thais.it /scultura/sch00637.htm (260 words)

	Leaning Tower of Pisa - Bonanno Pisano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For many years the design was attributed to Bonanno Pisano, a well known 12th century resident of Pisa, famous for his bronze casting, particularly in the Pisa Duomo.
		The bell tower, famous for the yielding of the ground that has provoked its inclination, was begun in 1174 by Bonanno Pisano, continued, after one long interruption, by Giovanni Pisano and concluded in the second half of the XIV century by Tommaso di Andrea Pisano."
		Not forgotten is the 15th century medieval center, the Piazza dei Cavalieri, near the University, that with the activity of its continuous Institutes the illustrious Pisan tradition as a cultural center of top level.
	www.endex.com /gf/buildings/ltpisa/ltpinfo/pisano.htm (587 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An architect, goldsmith, and sculptor, Andrea Pisano (c.
		Pisano creates perspective in his reliefs by using few figures against a simple background and emphasizing the solidity of the rear plane.
		In Pisano succeeded Giotto as the chief architect of the Florentine Campanile (bell tower), to which he added two storeys and some reliefs.
	www2.evansville.edu /ECOLEWEB/glossary/pisano.html (219 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: Andrea Pisano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Born c.1273 in Pisa, Italy; died in 1348 in Florence, Italy.
		A pupil of Giovanni Pisano, he went later to Florence where he was influenced by Giotto, from whom he derived the beginnings of naturalism in his art.
		Having worked as a goldsmith, he was commissioned in 1330 to design the first bronze doors of the baptistery of Florence, those on the south side.
	www.catholic-forum.com /SAINTS/ncd06600.htm (125 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 85017071
		Andrea Pisano, the creator of the first set of bronze doors on the Baptistry of Florence, is universally acknowledged as the most important Italian sculptor of the fourteenth century.
		Andrea's son, Nino, was a significant sculptor in his own right.
		She shows that together the work of the artists reflects two major currents in the European areni: late manifestation of the Parisian court style, and the beginnings of the Italian renaissance style in sculpture.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam031/85017071.html (183 words)

	Andrea Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
		Andrea's Art Classes in Orange County, California, offers art lessons for children K-12.
		ANDREA DA MURANO ANDREA DA MURANO Italian painter, Venetian school (known 1462-1502) Polyptych c.
		Orcagna, Andrea (Andrea di Cione, called l'Orcagna) (Florence 1320 c.
	www.absolutearts.com /masters/a/andrea-main.html (416 words)

	Pisano Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
		Josephsohn’s Zurich atelier is unexpectedly hidden between two new blocks of flats, surrounded by a...
		PISANO, Andrea PISANO, Andrea Italian sculptor (active c.
		PISANO, Nicola PISANO, Nicola Italian sculptor (active 1258-1278) Pulpit 1260 Marble, height: 465 c...
	www.absolutearts.com /masters/p/pisano.html (161 words)

	Andrea Fine Art at absolutearts.com
		BREGNO, Andrea BREGNO, Andrea Italian architect/sculptor (1421-1506) Monument of Cardinal Nicola de...
		Andrea Fryer is a media artist, working as a web designer.
		Andrea Palladio, The Basilica, Vicenza; 1546-1549; det. of lower arcade Andrea Palladio, The Basili...
	wwar.com /masters/a/andrea--main.html (470 words)

	Ptolemy: Iconography of His Portrait - Ptolémée: Iconographie de son portrait
		The nature of Andrea Pisano's role in this first zone of relief is, to say the least, uncertain.
		Pisano did these works in the frame of an iconographic program representing human activities.
		Also, I cannot recall if Andrea Pisano's Fontanta Maggiore in Perugia (adjacent to the Duomo) includes Astronomy, but I do remember that it includes the Liberal Arts.
	www.er.uqam.ca /nobel/r14310/Ptolemy/Pisano.html (2183 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Andrea di Jacopo d’Ognabene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1316 it was enlarged, and the added silver antependium was signed ANDREA DI JACOPO D’OGNABENE, although it is unclear whether Andrea was the author of both the antependium and the earlier retable.
		Gai (1984), on the other hand, proposed that Andrea was responsible for both the retable of 1287 and the antependium of 1316, also suggesting that Andrea’s work on the altar included the fifteen large circular and four quadrilobed enamels decorating the antependium, and the restoration in 1314 of two Apostles on the retable.
		A number of other works have been attributed to Andrea, although none is unanimously accepted as autograph.
	www.artnet.com /library/00/0027/T002773.asp (437 words)

	PISANO, ANDREA - Online Information article about PISANO, ANDREA
		PISANO, ANDREA - Online Information article about PISANO, ANDREA
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		ANDREA, also known as ANDREA DA PONTADERA (c.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PIG_POL/PISANO_ANDREA.html (155 words)

	Nino Pisano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		NINO PISANO, son of Andrea Pisano of Pisa, created a number of sculptures in Pisa, including the tomb of Archbishop Simone Salterelli at the Church of S. Caterina.
		The critic John Pope-Hennessey calls Pisano "the greatest Italian monumental sculptor of the middle of the fourteenth century" (Italian Gothic Sculpture, 1985, p.
		A group of his figures carved in the early 1360s was incorporated into the funeral monument of Doge Marco Cornaro (SA-51/B-1) in the main choir chapel of SS.
	www.boglewood.com /cornaro/xpisano.html (125 words)

	AllRefer.com - Andrea Pisano (European Art To 1599, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Andrea Pisano (European Art To 1599, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Andrea Pisano[Andre´A pEzA´nO] Pronunciation Key, c.1290–c.1348, Italian sculptor, also called Andrea da Pontedera.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Andrea Pisano
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Pisano-A.html (233 words)

	Reliefs on the Campanile, Florence by Andrea Pisano
		Reliefs on the Campanile, Florence by Andrea Pisano
		Although there is no documentation that the works can be attributed to Andrea Pisano, most scholars today believe that he was involved in the designs as well as being directly responsible for several of the reliefs.
		Further evidence is seen in the stylistic parallels between these reliefs and those he designed for the Florence Baptistry.
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/pisano/reliefs.html (316 words)

	Andrea Pisano Online
		Andrea Pisano in the Web Gallery of Art
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		All images and text on this Andrea Pisano page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/pisano_andrea.html (161 words)

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