1media/istockphoto-pisa_thumb.jpeg2021-12-13T05:07:36-08:00Grace Acquilanoad12acac80b0839e0f2c253b2422dad8a8d867c2394472Pisa, Italyplain2023-01-23T08:14:02-08:00f11photoGetty Images/iStockphotoThe Leaning Tower in a sunny day in Pisa, Italy.Amanda Luyster17d39c1ecea88fb7ff282fe74a410b89478b8327
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12021-11-03T13:52:22-07:00Where was this produced?14google_maps2023-01-23T08:13:28-08:0043.716667, 10.4By Grace Acquilano '22 This painting was produced in either Tuscany or Pisa, Italy. In general, northern Italian panel painting was most prominent in Siena. Pisa and Siena are fairly close to each other and the most famous panel painters come from these regions. Artistic techniques were easily communicated and transported among these two Italian cities. Icons of the Virgin were brought by emigrants from eastern provinces of the Byzantine empires to Italy. Italian patrons were intrigued by Byzantine icons. Italian painters studied Byzantine and Crusader icons to respond to this growing interest of Italian patrons. According to Van Os in his account Sienese Altarpieces 1215-1460, “The Byzantine influence reached the cities of Tuscany through the schools of Pisa and Lucca, which were in the forefront of this artistic renewal, but artists and works of art were also imported directly from Byzantium itself” (Van Os 17).
