Pisanello (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 about him in English. This book provides a unique insight into his life and work.
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While most considerations of early Renaissance art focus on the significance of the Florentine contribution, Pisanello's (c. 1394-1455) contemporary fame and extraordinary achievement makes clear to us the inadequacy and narrowness of that perspective. Although intended to complement an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, London, this scholarly but nonetheless accessible volume is, in fact, the best and most comprehensive study of the artist that exists in English. Handsomely produced and splendidly illustrated, it grapples insightfully with the full range of the master's activity as painter, draughtsman, and metallurgist. His works are tellingly evoked and iconographically unraveled, and their interconnections and sources are subtly exposed. Of particular import, the authors (both curators, Syson at the British Museum and Gordon at the National Gallery) offer the context for Pisanello's art within the realm of the courtly culture and chivalric values of his aristocratic employers while at the same time charting the humanistic and thus classicizing impulses manifested in works done for those same patrons. Pisanello's significant impact on painters, draughtsmen, illuminators, and metallurgists is also more than ably surveyed. A requisite addition to collections of Renaissance art and culture. Robert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, NY
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From the Publisher
This book is published to accompany an exhibition at the National Gallery in London from October 24, 2001 to January 13, 2002. Published by National Gallery Company. Distributed by Yale University Press
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