Pisa
28 works documented in the Bruno Balestrini archive.
12th c.
Architrave with the "Deesis" and Stories of the Baptist
Marble, frieze of the east door of the Baptistery, second half of the 12th century.
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12th c.
The Massacre of the Innocents
Bronze, detail of one of the panels decorated with biblical and Gospel episodes and with prophets, which make up the San Ranieri door of the Cathedral, about 1186.
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14th c.
Angel of the Annunciation
Polychrome wood, height cm 168. Statue made by Nino after 1349, when, following the death of his father Andrea, he inherited the direction of the Pisan workshop.
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14th c.
Henry VII Enthroned among His Dignitaries
Marble, detail of the figure of Henry VII, which perhaps formed part of the sculptural group of the mausoleum erected for the emperor in Pisa Cathedral between 1312 and 1315.
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13th c.
The Adoration of the Magi
Marble, height cm 85. Detail of a panel adorning the pulpit parapet, 1255-1260.
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13th c.
The Adoration of the Magi
Marble. Detail of a panel decorating the parapet of the pulpit, 1255-1260.
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14th c.
The Adoration of the Magi
Marble, height cm 47, detail of a panel of the pulpit, 1302-1310.
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13th c.
Fortitude
Marble, height cm 56, details of the pulpit created by Nicola between 1255 and 1260 in which he based this allegory on the figure of Hercules.
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14th c.
The Nursing Madonna
Polychrome marble, height cm 91. Statue made around 1345 for the church of Santa Caterina when Nino, together with his father Andrea, was working there on the Saltarelli tomb.
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13th c.
The Presentation in the Temple
Marble, height cm 85, 1255-1260. Detail of one of the panels adorning the five faces of the pulpit parapet.
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14th c.
The Liberal Arts
Marble, height cm 39, base of the central pillar of the pulpit made between 1302 and 1310. (school of)
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14th c.
The Cardinal Virtues and the Church
Marble, height cm 225. Supporting group representing allegoric figures created by Giovanni Pisano, following the designs of Matteo Falconi 1302-1310.
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14th c.
The Theological Virtues
Marble, detail of the pulpit, 1302-1310. Allegoric figures supporting the pulpit.
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14th c.
Madonna
Marble, detail of a statue made in the workshop opened by Nino with his father Andrea in 1343.
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13th c.
Pulpit
Marble, height cm 463. This is the first signed work by the artist comissioned for the Baptistry in 1255 and completed in 1260.
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13th c.
A prophet
Stone, detail of one of the colossal figures that once adorned the exterior of the Pisa Baptistery and are now inside the same building. (with Giovanni)
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