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Pisanello

American  
[pee-zah-nel-law] / ˌpi zɑˈnɛl lɔ /

noun

  1. Antonio Antonio Pisano, 1397–1455?, Italian painter and medalist.


Pisanello British  
/ pisaˈnɛllo /

noun

  1. Antonio (anˈtɔːnjo). ?1395–?1455, Italian painter and medallist; a major exponent of the International Gothic style. He is best known for his portrait medals and drawings of animals

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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You can follow the human interest all the way back to the early-15th-century studio of Pisanello, the attribution for a delightful sheet of studies of the heads and hairstyles of young boys.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2013

To me, both these stories felt like unfinished sketches; similar to the Pisanello plotline, they contain ideas about fame, anonymity, success, and failure that are never fully developed or explored.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2012

The same can’t be said of a plot thread involving Roberto Benigni as Leopoldo Pisanello, an ordinary middle-class nobody who wakes up one day to find himself inexplicably famous.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2012

The museum has gathered about 160 works by the likes of Botticelli, Verrocchio, Pisanello and Mantegna, ranging from painting and manuscript illumination to marble sculpture and bronze medals.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2011

By the fifteenth century it was richer in detail, as we see in Pisanello and the Florentines Gozzoli and Mantegna.

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred

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