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Giovanni da Pisa (ii) [Giovanni di Francesco]
( fl 1444; d ?Venice, c. 1460). Italian sculptor. In a document of February 1447 he is named as a member of Donatello’s Paduan workshop, where he apparently worked between 1444 and 1449, engaged on the high altar in Il Santo together with Donatello’s other assistants, Niccolò Pizzolo, Urbano da Cortona, Antonio Chellini ( fl 1446; d after 1464) and Francesco del Valente ( fl 1447). Though his role is not specified, Giovanni probably assisted in the modelling and casting of the bronzes and later may also have assisted on Donatello’s pulpits in S Lorenzo, Florence. On 8 July 1447 Giovanni was paid for work on the terracotta altar in the Ovetari Chapel of the church of the Eremitani, Padua. Although Michiel attributed the altarpiece to Giovanni, the design and execution are evidently the work of Pizzolo, from whom the altarpiece was commissioned, and Giovanni’s role was minor. Puppi suggested that he made a small-scale model of the altarpiece. Also attributed to Giovanni, probably erroneously, are three reliefs of the Virgin and Child (Padua, Eremitani, Ovetari Chapel, included in terracotta altar; Padua, S Giustina; Venice, S Maria Mater Domini), all of which are indebted to Donatello.
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