Giunta Pisano

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Giunta Pisano was a 13th-century Italian painter from Pisa, known as one of the earliest masters of Italian panel painting and a key figure in the transition from Byzantine to Gothic styles.

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instanceOf Italian painter
human
medieval painter
panel painter
activeYearsEnd c. 1254
activeYearsStart c. 1229
artForm tempera on panel
associatedWith Franciscan Order NERFINISHED
commissionedBy Dominican patrons
Franciscan patrons
countryOfCitizenship Italy
Republic of Pisa NERFINISHED
deathPlace Pisa NERFINISHED
era Italian Duecento NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork painting
floruit 13th century
genre panel painting
religious painting
influenced Cimabue NERFINISHED
early Italian Gothic painters
influencedBy Byzantine icon painting
Italo-Byzantine tradition
knownFor being one of the earliest masters of Italian panel painting
helping to establish a new expressive type of crucifix in Italy
movement Byzantine art NERFINISHED
Italian Gothic painting
Proto-Gothic art NERFINISHED
nationality Italian
notableFor early Italian panel painting
large painted crucifixes
transition from Byzantine to Gothic style in Italy
notableWork Crucifix for San Domenico, Bologna NERFINISHED
Crucifix for San Ranierino, Pisa NERFINISHED
Crucifix in Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi NERFINISHED
occupation painter
placeOfBirth Pisa NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
school Pisan school of painting NERFINISHED
styleCharacteristic combination of Byzantine rigidity with emerging naturalism
elongated figures
expressive depiction of Christ in pain
gold ground backgrounds
strong linear outlines
timePeriod High Middle Ages NERFINISHED
workLocation Assisi NERFINISHED
Pisa NERFINISHED

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