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Enrico di Tedice
( fl 1254). Italian painter. A painted Crucifix in S Martino, Pisa, once bore his signature, and he was a witness in Pisa on 12 October 1254. He was the brother of Ugolino di Tedice, the painter of a signed Crucifix (St Petersburg, Hermitage). The Passion scenes at the sides of the S Martino Crucifix illustrate Enrico’s expressive style, which is distinguished by the dramatic and emotional quality of the narration, very different from Giunta Pisano’s style, and by a very free pictorial technique, using short brushstrokes and strong contrasts of light and colour. Other works attributed to him include a Crucifix from the oratory, Castellare (now in S Giovanni alla Vena, Vicopisano, Pisa), and the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Passion Scenes (Florence, Bargello); the latter had been tentatively attributed by Garrison to the ‘Castellare Crucifix Master’. These works show that although Enrico adopted certain characteristics from Berlinghiero and Bonaventura Berlinghieri and even from Giunta Pisano, the origins of his style lie not in the Byzantine courtly tradition but rather in other cultural sources, usually identified as those of the Byzantine provinces of Cappadocia and the Balkan Peninsula. Enrico’s expressive style and varied use of colour seem to have influenced the S Martino Master of the following generation in Pisa.
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