Italian painter. He was active mainly in his native Pisa, but was heavily influenced by Sienese painting. He was a pupil of Lippo Memmi, the brother-in-law of Simone Martini, who is documented as working in Pisa in 1325, and may at that date taken on Giovanni di Nicola as a pupil. Giovanni di Nicola's only surviving signed work is the Virgin and Child with Sts Bona, John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene and Bartholomew, dated 1350, now in the Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa. In 1358 he was elected a member of the Consiglio del Popolo in Pisa. A now lost altarpiece showing St John the Baptist, signed and dated 1360 was recorded in San Pietro in Vinculis (San Pierino) in the eighteenth century. Giovanni di Nicola was a contemporary, and probably a collaborator of Francesco Traini, whose expressive style derived from that of Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti. //