Giovanni Pisano

Giovanni Pisano (* around 1250 in Pisa; † after 1314 in Siena) was a goldsmith, ore caster, sculptor and architect.

Life

Pisano, son and pupil of Niccolò Pisano, initially worked under his father at the pulpit of the Cathedral of Siena and the Fontane Maggiore in Perugia, he had participated since 1290 on the sculptures of the facade of the cathedral at Orvieto, in which at first the subjective, striving for individualization element of Italian sculpture manifests. It seems that in this work have German sculptor acted on him and led him to a deeper education of feeling moment. By 1300 verfertigte Pisano to Pistoia pulpit of Sant'Andrea, and the stoup in San Giovanni. Between 1302 and 1311 the pulpit was in the cathedral in Pisa.

For San Domenico in Perugia Pisano created in 1305, the monument of Pope Benedict XI. ( spitzgiebelige niche with sarcophagus in it). His last major work was the tomb of a Scrovegno in the Madonna dell ' ( Scrovegni Chapel ) in Padua. Of his Madonna statues is the most excellent, the Madonna del Fiore at the second southern portal of the cathedral at Florence. As an architect he built from 1278 to 1283, the Campo Santo of Pisa and Santa Maria della Spina; the Baptistery, he sided with Gothic gables and tabernacles.

1286-1289 he designed the facade of the Duomo of Siena, which served as a model for those of his pupil Lorenzo di Orvieto Maitano. Also, the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Prato, he is credited, in particular to the chapel della Cintola his work shall be. His collaboration in the completion of San Paolo a Ripa d' Arno church is considered likely. In sculpture as in architecture, he opened a new direction, which spread all over Italy. His characters, in which he seeketh kraftvollstem expression, he makes carriers genuine religious feeling. In the composition motives he joined the tradition essentially; but he was the first who introduced the female allegories in the costume of the time, as well as the standing Madonna in the Italian sculpture. Also for his marble technique, he was known. As an architect, he joined the Gothic. Even as a goldsmith and medalist he excelled. In the Vite of Giorgio Vasari, he is mentioned along with his father.