At the conclusion of the exhibition "Giovanni Pisano. In Memory of a Sculptor", on Saturday, March 7, 2026, at 11:00 a.m., the Opera della Primaziale Pisana presents the conference "The Middle Ages Rediscovered. Giovanni Pisano in nineteenth-century France".
The meeting will be held in the G. Toniolo Auditorium with a speech by Michele Amedei (University of Pisa).
The works will be introduced and accompanied by the exhibition curators Donata Levi (Memofonte Foundation) and Emanuele Pellegrini (IMT School of Advanced Studies).
The meeting proposes an investigation into one of the most fascinating paradoxes in the history of Italian art: how it was possible that Giovanni Pisano, author of the famous pulpit of Pisa Cathedral (1310), was long ignored in Italy while abroad, already since the nineteenth century, an increasingly solid recognition was growing around his figure. At the heart of the conference was the research conducted by Amedei at the Bibliothèque nationale de France on the papers of Rohault de Fleury, one of the first supporters of the art of Giovanni Pisano and among the first to imagine the reconstruction of Pergamon, dismantled at the beginning of the 17th century.
The meeting is open to the public, with no reservation required.
