L’angelo che non volò. Una scultura non realizzata per il nuovo arredo presbiteriale del Duomo di Pisa al tempo dell’arcivescovo Filippo de’ Medici Claudio Casini In the 1460s artistic activity in Pisa experienced a period of recovery thanks to the Florentine archbishop Filippo de’ Medici and to the Operaio del Duomo Antonio di Jacopo delle…

Benozzo Gozzoli e la Fraternita dei fiorentini di Pisa Luigi Lazzerini According to Vasari, Benozzo painted in Pisa «in the oratory of the Confraternity of the Florentines… the altarpiece and many other images». Starting with a detailed reconstruction of the fifteenth-century history of the Pisan Fraternita dei Fiorentini, which assisted those condemned to death, and…

Domenico Ghirlandaio and his Workshop in Pisa: Panel Paintings for the Gesuati Sarah M. Cadagin Domenico Ghirlandaio’s three paintngs in Pisa’s Museo Nazionale di San Mateo have long been the subject of connoisseurial investgaton, but have been litle examined in light of their origins in Pisa’s Gesuat church of San Girolamo. Exploring Ghirlandaio’s presence in…

La storia di Pafnuzio e Onofrio in una tavola del Museo Nazionale di San Matteo Caterina Bay This article is dedicated to a little known panel that entered the Pisa museum’s collection in 1808 from the suppressed church of San Paolo all’Orto. The painting, which served as the frontal for the high altar, represents episodes…

l restauro del Redentore benedicente del Beato Angelico al Museo Nazionale di San Matteo a Pisa: dati diagnostici e tecnico-materici Pierluigi Nieri The restoration of Beato Angelico’s Blessing Redeemer (Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa), undertaken to conserve a work unique for its preciousness and rarity as well as for its damaged condition, has allowed…

Tra decadenza e Rinascenza: spigolature sul Quattrocento a Pisa. Gerardo De Simone The fifteenth century was for Pisa an almost apocalyptic age: the glorious maritime Republic, queen of the Mediterranean sea in the past centuries, fell under the dominion of Florence and underwent a dramatic decay which affected demography, economy, culture and art. Nonetheless, eminent…

Benozzo Gozzoli, Filippo de’ Medici and the Old Testament Murals in the Camposanto in Pisa (1468-1484) Jean K. Cadogan This paper explores the role of Filippo de’ Medici, Archbishop of Pisa (1426-1474, r. 1461-1474), in the creation of the Old Testament murals in the Camposanto, painted by Benozzo Gozzoli between 1468 and 1484. Pisa was…