Pisanello
Americannoun
noun
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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
On the other we see those contrasting elements which were struggling in Pisanello; the delight in flowers and animals, in gaily apparelled figures, in dogs and horses.
From The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps
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