Triptych: Six Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist (Two Wings)

Deodato Orlandi, a Pisan painter active around 1284-1315 who bridges the late Duecento and early Trecento, created these triptych wings depicting six scenes from the life of John the Baptist. The work reflects the pictorial traditions of Pisa, a major maritime republic whose painters drew on both Byzantine and emerging Gothic influences, and demonstrates the narrative panel formats used for private or small-scale church devotion in early 14th-century Tuscany.

Executed in egg tempera and gold leaf on panel, the six narrative compartments display the compact storytelling format typical of Gothic triptych wings. Orlandi's style shows the late Byzantine-influenced manner of the Pisan school with strong linear contours, hieratic figural proportions, and richly tooled gold surfaces.