Guglielmo and bonanno pisano biography

Italian sculptor

Bonanno Pisano (born in Pisa; fl. 1170s–1180s) was an Italian sculptor, mixing Byzantine and classical elements.

Giorgio Vasari attributed the realization of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to him in his Vite. Pisano was born in Pisa and worked there most of his life.

Guglielmo and bonanno pisano biography

In the 1180s, he departed for Monreale, in Sicily, where he completed the doors to the cathedral before returning to Pisa, where he died. Pisano was buried at the foot of the leaning tower, where his sarcophagus was discovered in 1820.

Bonanno contributed to the Tower of Pisa in 1175, one year after the construction began.

Between March 1179 and March 1180, he created the bronze Porta Reale of the cathedral of Pisa, which was destroyed in the 1595 fire.

The San Ranieri gate in Pisa

From 1186 on, he constructed the San Ranieri door, at the right transept of the Duomo, depicting the main episodes of the Life of Christ.

The gate of the cathedral of Monreale

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