Introduction Diane Cole Ahl The Introduction analyzes the significance of the essays in this issue while underscoring the importance of Quattrocento Pisa as a catalyst for innovation and artistic exchange. It challenges the colonial conception of Florentine cultural domination by identifying the unique contributions of the city’s art and proposes new directions for further research.

Pisa as a Center of Tuscan Painting in the 1390s: The Case of Taddeo di Bartolo* Gail E. Solberg This paper examines artistic exchange at Pisa with a focus on Taddeo di Bartolo’s activity there in the mid 1390s. Carpentry design is the aspect of style that shows how Taddeo’s altarpieces for the city were…

Giovanni di Pietro da Napoli e Martino di Bartolomeo “in compagnia” nella Pisa di primo Quattrocento(con un accenno alle tele che fingevano affreschi) Gabriele Fattorini In the years preceding the Florentine conquest of 1406, Pisa witnessed the prolific activity of an unusual company of painters, which brought together Giovanni di Pietro of Naples and Martino…

Pittura tra Pisa e Lucca al principio del Quattrocento: alcuni casi dello stile ‘gotico internazionale’ Marco M. Mascolo At the beginning of the fifteenth century, Florence became one of the centers from which the so-called ‘International Gothic’ radiated. The frescoes of Gherardo Starnina and the Empoli polyptych of Lorenzo Monaco established a new point of…

Giovanni di Pietro, un pittore pisano a Genova nel primo Quattrocento. Approfondimenti, inediti e questioni di contesto Clario Di Fabio Born in Pisa, the painter Giovanni di Pietro is known only for his activity in Genoa between the Tre- and Quattrocento. This article reconsiders the totality of his oeuvre and all the documentary and epigraphic…

Godi, Firenze: The Florentine Conquest of Pisa Celebrated in Song* Anthony M. Cummings The early-Quattrocento madrigal “Godi, Firenze” by the composer Abbot Paolo da Firenze celebrates the 1406 Florentine conquest of Pisa. The event was a military victory, surely, but the text of the madrigal paraphrases Dante’s Inferno (“Take joy, oh Florence, for you are…

Il secolo breve di Pisa. L’architettura durante la prima occupazione fiorentina (1406-1494) fra tradizione e innovazione Marco Frati Pisan architecture in the fifteenth century, the first age of political domination of Florence on the former independent maritime republic, was marked by an opposition between the persistent Romanesque and Gothic local tradition, and the introduction of…

Ricerche sull’iconografia del Polittico Pisano di Masaccio* Linda Pisani This essay investigates a rare iconography shown by Masaccio in one of his most famous works, the Virgin and Child, formerly the central panel of the polyptych painted for the Pisan church of Santa Maria del Carmine and now in the National Gallery of London. The…

Locating Albert: the first Carmelite Saint in the works of Taddeo di Bartolo, Lippo di Andrea, Masaccio and others 1* Christa Gardner von Teuffel Lacking an undisputed founder, the Carmelites, in competition with other mendicant orders, promulgated the cult of their early confessor Alberto degli Abati of Trapani (c.1240-1307). Their concentration on Albert’s legend, iconography,…

San Ranieri in America. Due oreficerie di metà Quattrocento fra New York e Pisa Gabriele Donati The gilded copper reliquary dated 1446 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art) has been well-known for a long time as a rare example of the early infiltration of Renaissance forms inspired by Brunelleschi and Donatello in the field of…