pisa

May 9, 2018
Begun in 1278, Pisa’s Monumental Cemetery, the Camposanto, is one of the city’s most important historical sites.

November 29, 2017
On 29 November 1425, Construction of the Chapel of St. Julian Began in Pisa.

February 26, 2017
On 26 February 1616, Galileo Galilei was formally banned and banished by the Roman Catholic Church for teaching and defending the opinion that the Earth orbits the Sun.

January 9, 2017
Buffalmacco’s Last Judgment back in the Campo Santo in Pisa Following a new restoration, Buonamico Buffalmacco’s renown fresco has recently been placed back in the south gallery of the Campo Santo , where it was painted around 1336.

February 19, 2016
Renaissance painter Masaccio received the first payment for the so-called “Pisa Altarpiece” on 19 February 1426.

June 7, 2015
Renowned Renaissance scholar Paul Oskar Kristeller died on 7 June 1999 in New York, where he had been professor of philosophy at Columbia University.

September 20, 2014
On 20 September 1374, painter Antonio Veneziano registered with the Arte dei Medici e Speziali in Florence .

June 11, 2014
The fifth annual IAS/Kress lecture in Italy , jointly sponsored by the Italian Art Society with the support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation , was held on 27 May 2014 at 5 pm in the Gipsoteca di Arte Antica of the Università di Pisa .

May 27, 2014
This afternoon in Pisa Jean Cadogan will present “ Maravigliose istorie : The Mural Decoration of the Camposanto in Pisa” as the the annual IAS/Kress Lecture .

May 25, 2014
In anticipation of the 2014 IAS/Kress Lecture by Dr. Jean Cadogan , “ Maravigliose istorie : The Mural Decoration of the Camposanto in Pisa,” I share some photos of Pisa.