# Relief from the south side of the Campanile: 1. Gionitus, inventor of Astronomy \(lower register\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PISANO, Andrea]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary Relief from the south side of the Campanile: 1. Gionitus, inventor of Astronomy \(lower register\) 1334-37 Marble Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence This relief is one of the seven 'discoverers of the crafts' in the lower register of the socle of the Campanile, of which three are on the south side. On this relief an old man is sitting at a desk and is gazing up towards the heavens with a quadrant. He is generally called Gionitus, who can be identified as Jonitus, the fourth son of Noah who, according to Methodius \(a martyr\), was born after the deluge and who was supposedly the inventor of astronomy. This relief was executed by a collaborator of Andrea Pisano, called the Master of Armour. ## Related artworks - [Campanile]() - [Christ]() - [Detail of the Campanile]() - [Equestrian relief of St Martin]() - [Equestrian relief of St Martin]() - [King Solomon]() - [Madonna with Child]() - [Nursing Madonna \(Madonna del Latte\)]() - [Nursing Madonna \(Madonna del Latte\)]() - [Portal on the east side \(lower register\)]() - [Relief from the south side of the Campanile: 1. Faith \(upper register\)]() - [Relief from the south side of the Campanile: 2. Architecture \(lower register\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()