Giunta Pisano

Giunta Pisano (also Giunta da Pisa ) was a player in the first half of the 13th century Italian painter of the late Middle Ages. When his masterpieces his painted crucifixes, their representation of Christ and other figures are influenced by Italo- Byzantine art apply. These are some of the first large-scale plants of this kind

Style

Giunta Pisano painted influenced by Byzantine art, in all his works are related to the iconography of Constantine Opel in Middle Byzantine period.

Signature

Giunta Pisano is one of the few Italian painters before 1300, of which it is already known the real name, as he has added him in inscriptions some of his works. To be read in Bologna on one of he painted crucifixes following Latin text: " Cuius docta manus me PIXIT junta Pisanus " ( German "From the skilful hand of Giunta Pisano "); the painter draws attention with this " signature" on this, one of the first large-scale cross pictures of the time on his individual craftsmanship.

Works (selection)

Giunta Pisano, Crucifix, about 1260th Pisa, Museo Nazionale di San Matteo

Giunta Pisano. St. Francis of Assisi, about 1270 Rome, Vatican Museum ( Pinacoteca )