GIUN T A PISANO, Italian painter of the 13th century, a native of Pisa. He died between 1255 and 1267. It is said that he painted in the upper church of Assisi, notably a "Crucifixion" dated 1236, with a figure of Father Elias, the general of the Fran ciscans, embracing the cross. This painting no longer exists. Three large Crucifixions are ascribed to the same master, whose signature can be traced on them. One is in S.S. Raineri e Leonardo in Pisa and was formerly in the convent of St. Anna ; the other, which has been moved from the Ospedale of S. Chiara to the Museo Civico at Pisa, is completely overpainted; the third is in S. Maria degli Angeli at Assisi. In these paintings Christ is rep resented with his head leaning on one side with an expression of pain, and his body bending forward in agony—a conception differ ing from "the triumphant Christ" of the preceding age. Some recent art critics see in Giunta Pisano a pioneer who, coming from Tuscany to Assisi, influenced the development of Umbrian art.