Excerpt from Pisanello
Ed or di quali scole
Verra 'I maestro, che descriva appieno
Quel, ch'i' vo' dir in semplici parole?
Petrarch, Triumph of Fame.
The genesis of a particular volume in a series of Lives of artists is not likely to be of interest to any one but its author. But I may be forgiven for saying something in palliation of the deficiencies of which I am only too sensible. It was originally intended that this volume should give an account of the early Italian medallists, with Pisanello, of course, as the central figure. But it was abundantly clear from the outset that Pisanello the medallist is inseparable from Pisanello the painter. An excursion outside the bounds of the author's ordinary province thus became inevitable; and the other medallists have been relegated to the limbo of a final, and very sketchy, chapter, in order to allow of a fuller treatment of the founder of their art in his aspect of painter.
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