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  Giovanni Pisano - LoveToKnow 1911
Niccola, the younger Pisano was summoned between 1270 and 1274 to Naples, where he worked for Charles of Anjou on the Castel Nuovo.
In 1290 Giovanni was appointed architect or "capo maestro" of the new cathedral at Siena, in which office he succeeded Lorenzo Maitani, who went to Orvieto to build the less ambitious but equally magnificent duomo which had just been founded there.
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.
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 Biography
They were the greatest sculptors of their period and stand at the head of the tradition of Italian sculpture in the same way that Giotto stands at the head of the tradition of Italian painting.
Giovanni developed this much further in Siena, where from 1284 onwards he designed the façade of the cathedral and carried out much of the sculptural decoration (some of the figures have been transferred to the cathedral museum and a magnificent fragment is in the Victoria and Albert Museum).
Giovanni also made a number of free-standing statues, the best known of which is the Madonna and Child on the altar of the Arena Chapel in Padua (c.
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  PISANO, NICOLA. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Assisted by his son Giovanni and other pupils, he allowed them a greater part of the execution.
With Giovanni he designed 24 statues and twice as many reliefs, all finished (1278) within one year.
Nicola Pisano was the earliest noted Italian sculptor.
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 Study Of Art - The Pisani
Giovanni, son of Niccola, learned his art in working for his father, and later took entire charge of the large commissions entrusted to him.
The pulpit made by Giovanni for the Cathedral of Pisa in 1310—1311 was taken to pieces after the great fire in 1595, and the fragments are now in the Museum.
Giovanni is striving to present with vividness and reality the Bible stories that had been hardened into set forms by tradition and lifeless copying.
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 Nicola Pisano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pisano is sometimes considered to be the founder of modern sculpture.
Pisano was probably trained in the Italian workshops of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II.
His son Giovanni Pisano was also a sculptor.
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 Columbia Encyclopedia- Pisano Nicola - AOL Research & Learn
With Giovanni he designed 24 statues and twice as many reliefs, all finished (1278) within one year.
Nicola Pisano was the earliest noted Italian sculptor.
Giovanni also designed an ornate facade for the cathedral at Siena.
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 ANDREA PISANO - LoveToKnow Article on ANDREA PISANO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Pisano sbout 130u, and worked with him on the sculpture for S. Maria della Spina at Pisa and elsewhere.
But it is at Florence that his chief works were executed, and the formation of his mature style was due rather to Giotto than to his earlier master.
Andrea Pisano had two sons, Nino and Tommasoboth, especially the former, sculptors of considerable ability.
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 Giovanni Pisano Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The son of the sculptor Nicola Pisano, Giovanni Pisano was listed as an assistant to his father in the contract of September 29, 1265, for the pulpit in the Siena Cathedral.
Giovanni carved the holy-water font in St. Giovanni Fuorcivitas, Pistoia, in the early 1270s and collaborated with his father on the Fontana Maggiore, Perugia, which was completed in 1278.
In 1313 Giovanni was called to Genoa to execute the tomb of Margaret of Luxemburg, fragments of which are now in the Palazzo Bianco, Genoa.
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 COMUNE di PISTOIA
The Pisano family's involvement with the city of Pistoia began in 1273, when Nicola was commissioned by the Operai di San Jacopo to make the altar dedicated to the patron saint (vs31), and ended in 1301 when Giovanni consigned the finished pulpit to the parish of Sant'Andrea (vs25).
In those years Giovanni lived in Pisa where he was working both on the sounding of the bell-tower's structure and on the ivory piece to be placed on the cathedral's high altar (of which today only the beautiful Madonna remains).
This is chronologically the third of the Pisanos' pulpits and the Pistoian piece achieves the greatest results in terms of the harmonious composition of architecture and sculpture.
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 History of Art: Gothic Art,Nicola Pisano,Giovanni Pisano
Giovanni Pisano is first mentioned in the contract for the pulpit of Siena Cathedral in 1265, which awarded him a higher payment (4 soldi) than Nicola’s other assistants Arnolfo and Lapo (6 soldi for both).
Initially Giovanni’s work was limited to carrying out Nicola’s compositions and following his models, but he soon developed a style of his own, identifiable even in the context of his father’s workshop, and he evidently enjoyed considerable autonomy on the Perugia fountain.
Especially after Nicola’s death, Giovanni developed an extraordinarily broad range of expression, carving figures that were solemn and contemplative or tormented and violent, often distorted and emaciated to convey emotion.
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Niccola, the younger Pisano was summoned between 127o and 1274 to Naples, where he worked for Charles of Anjou on the Castel Nuovo.
In 1290 Giovanni was appointed architect or " capo maestro " of the new cathedral at Siena, in which office he succeeded Lorenzo Maitani, who went to Orvieto to build the less ambitious but equally magnificent duomo which had just been founded there.
At Perugia, Giovanni built the 1 The date on the door, 1330, refers to the original wax model.PISANO, N. church of S. Domenico in 1304, but little of the original structure remains.
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 Giovanni Pisano, the Dominicans, and the Origin of the "crucifixi dolorosi"
This division is not however as organic and logical as in the Siena Crucifix, not to mention the crucifixes by Giovanni Pisano himself.
I think that it is unnecessary to assume there was a substantial time lag between the works of the master and those, which may be attributed to his disciples or followers, as though medieval sculptors needed decades to grasp the ideas of one of their number.
The horrific, "Gothic" form of the crucifixi dolorosi, which derived in fact from the work of Giovanni Pisano, paved the way for a new understanding of the human body, for a new dignity for human beings, who may be identical to Christ in their earthly suffering.
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 GIOVANNI PISANO (c. 12... - Online Information article about GIOVANNI PISANO (c. 12...
Perugia, Giovanni built the 1 The date on the door, 1330, refers to the See also:
Arno in Pisa; the actual execution of this chapel, and the sculpture with which it is adorned, was mostly the work of his pupils.2 The See also:
Brach, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano and die Plastik des XIV.
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 Siena hotel Italy hotels accommodation alberghi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Giovanni Pisano, along with his studio, also carved many of the statues decorating it (most of the originals are now in the Museo dell'Opera Metropolitana, featured below).
The ones in the nave and aisles are usually uncovered, but the most precious ones under the apse and in the transepts are protected by cardboard flooring and uncovered from August 23 to October 3 in honor of the Palio.
At the entry to the left transept is Nicola Pisano's masterpiece * pulpit (1265-68), on which he was assisted by his son, Giovanni, and Arnolfo di Cambio.
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 Giovanni Pisano
Italian architect and sculptor, the son of Nicola Pisano.
After he had spent the first part of his life at home as a pupil and fellow worker of Nicola, the younger Pisano was summoned between 1270 and 1274 to Naples, where he worked for Charles of Anjou on the Castel Nuovo.
The last part of Giovanni's life was spent at Prato, near Florence, where with many pupils he worked at the cathedral until his death about 1330.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: 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.
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 Thais - Giovanni Pisano - Pulpito
Giovanni devoted himself to this monumental work from 1302 to 1310, amid quarrels and disputes that must surely have left him embittered.
The doctrinal plan was worked out by Matteo Falconi, as explicitly recorded in one of the inscriptions: it embodies the traditional dogma as fixed in its monastic elaborations, and intermingled are also many symbolic references to classical learning.
Giovanni attese a quest'opera monumentale dal 1302 al 1310, tra beghe e contrasti che dovettero amareggiarlo non poco.
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 Giovanni Pisano Summary
Another possibility is that Nicola Pisano died in 1284 when Giovanni took up residence in Siena.
The church of San Nicola in Pisa was enlarged between 1297 and 1313 by the Augustinians, perhaps by the design of Giovanni Pisano.
One of his pupils was Giovanni di Balduccio, who also became a famous sculptor, and the architect and sculptor Agostino da Siena.
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 From Lives of the Artists: Pisano - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
The father and son team of Nicola and Giovanni Pisano revived old influences and brought new influences to Italian sculpture in the 13th and early 14th centuries.
In the 1250s, Italian sculptor Nicola Pisano revived many of the elements of classical sculpture, carving marble panels with solid, densely packed figures that resembled those sculpted on ancient Roman sarcophagi.
Nicola passed the classical influence on to his son, Giovanni Pisano, but Giovanni’s work also evinced the French Gothic style, with its elongated, graceful, active lines and forms.
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 Giovanni Pisano (1250 - 1319) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Veduta della Facciata della Basilica di S.Giovanni Laterano (View of the Facade of the Basilica of S. Giovanni Laterano) from the series Veduta di Roma, ca.
Giovanni Lanfranco (Giovanni di Stefano), The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, from the series of etchings Biblical Scenes, after the frescoes by Raphael in the Vatican Loggia, 1638
Giovanni Lanfranco (Giovanni di Stefano), The Adoration of the Shepherds, from the series of etchings Biblical Scenes, after the frescoes by Raphael in the Vatican Loggia, 1607
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 Sculpture 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Giavanni Pisano carried the classicist impression of his father’s style throughout his artistic career but integrated his work with new inspiration and is regarded by some as Italy’s first and only true Gothic sculptor.
One’s eyes slowly rise from the still-powerful arm and hand to his head, which is held erect by the thickness of his neck, a Hellenistic device of exaggeration to represent the strength of a king.
As with David, Pisano’s Moses is a sculpture worthy of praise and admiration.
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 Art: Gothic Sculpture of Giovanni Pisano at Met - New York Times
LEAD: ''GIOVANNI PISANO IN GENOA'' is a slightly smaller version of a show that took place this spring in Genoa.
The centerpiece is the three-part fragment from ''The 'Elevation' of Queen Margaret of Brabant.'' The Queen stares with a mixture of apprehension and trust at the angel lifting her left arm.
The front seems to be what Pisano had to do; the back, which would probably not be seen by anyone, except presumably God, seems to have been a gestural release.
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 Biography
Pisano, name of two 13th- and 14th-century Italian sculptors and architects, father and son, who were the preeminent figures of the 13th-century Italian revival of the classical Roman sculptural style.
This uniquely Italian assimilation of French Gothic influences can be seen in Nicola and Giovanni's Siena pulpit (1268), Giovanni's sculptures and architectural design for the facade of the Siena Cathedral (circa 1285), and his later pulpit for Pistoia (1301).
Giovanni's designs were some of the most powerful and expressive in Italian art at the end of the 13th century, and they were a dominant influence on Italian sculptors of the early Renaissance, among them Jacopo della Quercia, Lorenzo Ghiberti, and Donatello.
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 Leaning Tower of Pisa - Bonanno Pisano
From him a glorious school derived (Frà Guglielmo da Pisa; Arnolfo di Cambio), of which the greatest exponent was his son Giovanni Pisano, the greatest Gothic Italian sculptor, endowed with a human and violent expressiveness.
It continued in the 1300's with Andrew Pisano, sons Nino and Tommaso, Giovanni of Balduccio and others, and his methods fertilized all the Italian sculpture of the time.
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.
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 Giovanni Pisano
1250-1314) was an Italian sculptor, as was his father Nicola Pisano.
The five reliefs on the pulpit are the Annunciation and Nativity; the Adoration, Dream of the Magi and Angel warning Joseph; the Massacre of the Innocents; the Crucifixion; and the Last Judgement.
Giorgio Vasari included a biography of Pisano in his Lives.
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 Giovanni Pisano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1250-1314) was an Italian sculptor, as was his father Nicola Pisano.
The five reliefs on the pulpit are the Annunciation and Nativity; the Adoration, Dream of the Magi and Angel warning Joseph; the Massacre of the Innocents; the Crucifixion; and the Last Judgement.
Giorgio Vasari included a biography of Pisano in his Lives.
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 Thais - 1200 anni di scultura italiana - Nicola Pisano
Particolare dell'ultima impresa di Nicola che lo vide impegnato con il figlio Giovanni.
The Baptistery in Siena was built by Nicola between 1266 and 1269 with a group of helpers.
Pietra, particolare di uno dei colossi che una volta ornavano l'esterno del Battistero pisano, e che oggi si trovano all'interno dello stesso edificio.
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 The Museum of Pure Form
On the right side a soldier rises up the child upside down on the point of decapitating him, while the mother is tearing her hairs in desperation, motifs derived from the Byzantine iconographic language.
Made by Giovanni Pisano, belonging to the group of sculptures realized for the top of the Baptistery between the 1278 and the 1285.
Notwithstanding the statue is headless and without the right arm, it represents one of the highest plastic expressions of Giovanni, where the gothic linearism and the evidence of emergent volumes are resolved into a admirable synthesis of shape and movement.
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 Giovanni Pisano - Page 001
Giovanni Pisano was undoubtedly one of Italy's greatest sculptors, but unfortunately, he seems doomed to live forever in the shadow of his father, Nicola Pisano.
It is estimated that Giovanni was born around the year 1248 and died around 1319.
His sculptural style will be discussed alone, without reference to his father, for it is Giovanni's workmanship which made this one the most important and influential works in the history of art.
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