Giunta Pisano

Giunta Pisano, crucifix , Pisa, Museo Nazionale di San Matteo

Giunta Pisano (also Giunta da Pisa ) was an Italian painter of the late Middle Ages who worked in the first half of the 13th century . Probably born shortly after 1200, he was mentioned for the first time in a document in 1229; the last mention is from the year 1254. He worked not only in Pisa, but also in Assisi . His painted crucifixes are considered his masterpieces .

style

Pisano's depiction of the suffering Christ and other figures are influenced by the icon painting of Constantinople in the Middle Byzantine period . His dramatic depictions of Christ are among the earliest large-scale works of Italo-Byzantine art.

signature

Giunta Pisano is one of the few Italian painters before 1300, whose real name is already known, as he added it to some of his works in inscriptions. In Bologna, for example, the following Latin text can be read on one of the crucifixes he painted : “ Cuius docta manus me pixit Junta Pisanus ” (German: “From the skillful hand of Giunta Pisano”); With this "signature" on this large cross painting, the painter indicates his individual craftsmanship

Works

Giunta Pisano, crucifix , ca.1250, Bologna, Basilica San Domenico
Giunta Pisano, crucifix , approx. 1260. Pisa, Museo Nazionale di San Matteo
Giunta Pisano: St. Francis of Assisi , approx. 1270. Rome, Vatican Museum (Pinacoteca)

literature

E. Benezit: Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Engraveurs . Librarie Gründ, Paris 1976. ISBN 2-7000-0153-2 (French)

Individual evidence

↑ cf. W. Schöne: Giotto's crucifix tablets and their predecessors . In H. Möhle (Ed.): Festschrift Friedrich Winkler . Mann 1959, pp. 49-63
↑ Cf. on this and on further interpretation of this inscription: T. Burg: The signature: Forms and functions from the Middle Ages to the 17th century , Art History Vol. 80. Lit-Verlag 2007, p. 273.

personal data
SURNAME	Pisano, Giunta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Giunta da Pisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian painter of the Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH	12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH	13th century or 14th century

[1] . W. Schöne: Giotto's crucifix tablets and their predecessors . In H. Möhle (Ed.): Festschrift Friedrich Winkler . Mann 1959, pp. 49-63

[2] Cf. on this and on further interpretation of this inscription: T. Burg: The signature: Forms and functions from the Middle Ages to the 17th century , Art History Vol. 80. Lit-Verlag 2007, p. 273.