PIERO D'ARRIGO TEDESCO
(b. ~1360 ?, d. ~1410 Pistoia)
Italian goldsmith, active in Pistoia in the 1380s. He worked on the enlargement of the Silver Altar of St James in Pistoia Cathedral in 1386. Biographical data are not available.
Silver Altar of St James (detail)
The detail of the frontal shows three Apostles (by Andrea di Jacopo d’Ognabene, c. 1316) flanked by the Blessing Christ and St John the Baptist (by Piero d’Arrigo Tedesco in 1386).
Silver Altar of St James (detail)
The Pistoia altar was ordered in 1287, was extended by Andrea di Jacopo d’Ognabene after 1316, and was amplified by the addition of side pieces between 1361 and 1367; it was again enlarged after 1381, and the upper part was added in 1394-96.
The detail of the predella shows the Dead Christ between Dolenti (mournful figures).