Museo delle Sinopie
The Museo delle Sinopie preserves the preparatory drawings behind Pisa’s famous frescoes, kept in a large medieval brick building that once served as the Spedale Nuovo. Opened in 1979, the museum sits on the south side of the Piazza del Duomo and houses the sinopie—the charcoal underdrawings and studies—that preceded the damaged frescoes of the Camposanto Monumentale. Among the artists represented in these preparatory works are Buffalmacco, Andrea Bonaiuti, Antonio Veneziano, Spinello Aretino, Taddeo Gaddi, Piero di Puccio, and Benozzo Gozzoli. The sheets survived the 1944 Allied bombing that damaged or destroyed much of the painted walls; during urgent restoration, the preparatory drawings were detached and saved, then installed here when the museum was formed. …
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