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Pisanello (c. 1394–1455) was the most famous artist of his time,celebrated as both painter and medallist. His work is both exquisitely beautiful and rare-- only four undisputed panel paintings by him survive--and little has been published abouthim in English. This book provides a unique insight into the life and work of thisextraordinary artist.Pisanello's art is exceptional for its elegance and its naturalism.While he treats subjects from legend and the Bible, he transposes them to his own time,offering a vivid picture of life in Italy in the fifteenth century. This book takes as itsstarting point two of Pisanello's panel paintings, both found in London's NationalGallery--The Vision of Saint Eustace and The Virgin and Child with Saint George andSaint Anthony Abbot. These paintings are examined in the context of related paintings,preparatory drawings, medals, manuscript illuminations, and tapestries. The book alsoexplores Pisanello's work as a medallist, his skills in this medium, and how hetransformed the art of the portrait medal. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from New Statesman (1996), published by New Statesman, Ltd. on November 12, 2001. The length of the article is 875 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Animal magic ART.
Author: Ned Denny
Publication: New Statesman (1996) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 12, 2001
Publisher: New Statesman, Ltd.
Volume: 130Issue: 4563Page: 40

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The Boymans-van Beuningen Museum of Rotterdam contains some of the most important drawings by Old Masters of Dutch, Flemish, Italian, English, French and Spanish schools from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. This catalogue includes 104 drawings which range from very early German and Italian artists such as Pisanello and Gozzoli to early Netherlandish artists such as Schonganer, Altdorfer, the van Eyck School, Hieronymus Bosch, to nineteenth century French artists such as Ingres, Manet, Degas and Cezanne. Other distinguished artists represented are Durer, Rembrandt, Rubens and Watteau. The catalogue entries contain extensive and up-to-date literature on the drawings as well as information on provenance and technique. Discussion on matters of attribution and information is given in the footnotes and not in the running text, leaving the entries to be read as small essays on the drawings. All the 104 drawings are reproduced full-page in colour. Also included are 220 comparative illustrations in black and white of similar drawings by the same artist, or other related works of art. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Renaissance Society of America on June 22, 2002. The length of the article is 6644 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Pisanello Redux. (Review Essay).(Pisanello: Painter to the Renaissance Court) (book review)
Author: Joanna Woods-Marsden
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: 55Issue: 2Page: 662(15)

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"This book is the first attempt fully to gauge Pisanello's significance as an artist, and it is remarkably successful in doing this. It brings one closer than any earlier publication to the climate of fifteenth-century court art and to the creative intentions of a great court artist." --Sir John Pope-Hennessy, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Fine Arts "This is certainly one of the most impressive contributions I have seen to the interpretation of courtly cultures in the Renaissance, and it is beyond a doubt one of the most important works on Mantua done in this century. What is more, it is interesting and original in so many ways, and manages at the same time to be so erudite and so lively, that it immediately establishes the author as one of a tiny group of scholars who really do make history and art history work together. Time and again, I found myself nodding in agreement, breaking into a smile at some striking or witty observation, or wishing I had said this or that."--Werner Gundersheimer, Director, The Folger Shakespeare Library The unfinished frescoes by Antonio Pisanello in the Ducal Palace in Mantua have intrigued and puzzled art historians since their rediscovery in the 1960s. In the most extensive discussion in English of these important paintings, Joanna Woods-Marsden identifies the frescoes as a coherent cycle depicting an episode from the "prose Lancelot," a thirteenthy2Dcentury French romance. Dating the cycle c. 1447-48, she argues that it was commissioned by Lodovico Gonzaga, ruler of Mantua, and suggests that the work, located in an important reception-hall in the mid-fifteenth-century palace, documents its patron's political and social self-image and ambitions. Not only does the book consider Pisanello's pictorial style in the context of the values, pretensions, and illusions of the Gonzaga court, but it also constitutes a study of his artistic career, of the links between the cycle's pictorial design and the Lancelot's narrative structure, and of Pisanello's physical execution of the frescoes and sinopie. ... Read more