Galleria Sculture lignee (Museo Nazionale di San Matteo)
National Museum of San Matteo
Museo Nazionale di S. Matteo (G. Bettini, Comune di Pisa)Curious fact:in 1917, Pablo Picasso was in Rome, as the superintendent of the setsfor the Russian ballet by Sergei Diaghilev. Before returning to Spain, he was attracted to the paintings preserved in the Pisan Campo Santo, made known by the reproductions of the English Pre-Raphaelites. In front of the large detached fresco of the Madonna and Child byTaddeoGaddi, from the church of San Francesco and now in the museum of San Matteo, he was dazzled by its Gothic linearity, at a time when his interest in returning to the ancient order was very high. Without delay, perhaps driven by an artistic-vandalic impulse, he left his signature followed by the date: Picasso1917. The work is currently being restored.
