Volume 43, Number 13 · August 8, 1996
The Best of Both Worlds
By James Fenton
Pisanello the Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, September 7—December 9, 1996
an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, May 6—August 5, 1996, and at
Pisanello: le peintre aux sept vertus
catalog of the exhibition, edited by Dominique Cordellier
Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 518 pp., $135.00 (paper)
In 1862 the historian of Veronese painting Cesare Bernasconi cast doubt on the idea that all the works of Pisanello that were once admired in Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Pavia, Mantua, and Naples could have disappeared altogether. Some of them, surely, must be languishing under misattribution to some other painter. No other artist from the fourteenth of the first part of the fifteenth century, with the possible exception of Giotto, had been so praised by his eminent contemporaries. Something more must have survived.[1]
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