Word: pisanello
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riot of clear colors. Scores of carved and painted ships furled their emblazoned sails at the city's steps. Indoors, Byzantine mosaics shattered the streaming white light into stabs of dandelion yellow, blood, emerald, and midnight blue. Paintings glistened with the burnished metals and translucent glazes evolved by Pisanello and Gentile da Fabriano...
...travel from the fourth floor to the ground, you will never be able to do great work." But few matters in the text are more impressive than de Tolnay's own paragraphs, packed with sound information, flecked with illumination, and free from crotchets. Characteristic is his discussion of Pisanello's place in history...
...Pisanello ... was perhaps the first great draftsman of Europe. . . . [He] tries to grasp man as a product of nature. . . . His new conception of nature ... is . . . immediately expressed in his drawings of animals, plants, trees, and landscapes. He looks with new eyes on the broad realm of creation and discovers in the pulpy flower or plant something zoömorphic, and in the animal something plantlike. He sees trees as tender, trembling creatures hovering in the soft air; landscape is for him no longer a mere background to man but a space filled with light...