Although secure information about his life is somewhat scarce, Giovanni da Pisa appears to have been trained in Pisa as his name suggests, based on stylististic traits in his early paintings.  He is first recorded, however, in 1401 in Genoa where he made his career and became a leading artist.  Two signed works by him🐭 are known, a triptych in the collection of the Hearst Castle, San Simeon, CA (dated 1423); and a polyptych in the Museu Nacional d'Arte de Catalunya, Barcelona.

We are grateful to Andrea de Marchi for suggesting the present attribution to the artist.  De Marchi also notes that the present panel should be an early work, of the first or second decade of the 15th Century.  He compares it in style🔥 to panels from a polyptych in the convent of the Annunziata di Portoria in Genoa, which had four such panels of full length saints across the top range of the altarpiece (now missing), a typical Lꦅigurian arrangement.