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
commissionedBy Dominican patrons
Franciscan patrons
countryOfCitizenship Italy
Republic of Pisa
deathPlace Pisa
era Italian Duecento
fieldOfWork painting
floruit 13th century
genre panel painting
religious painting
influenced Cimabue
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
Italian Gothic painting
Proto-Gothic art
linked to: Gothic art
nationality Italian
notableFor early Italian panel painting
large painted crucifixes
transition from Byzantine to Gothic style in Italy
notableWork Crucifix for San Domenico, Bologna
Crucifix for San Ranierino, Pisa
Crucifix in Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi
occupation painter
placeOfBirth Pisa
religion Catholicism
linked to: Roman Catholicism
school Pisan school of painting
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
workLocation Assisi
Pisa

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