Pisanello

[ pee-zah-nel-law ]

noun

1. An·to·nio [ahn-, taw, -nyaw], Antonio Pisano, 1397–1455?, Italian painter and medalist.

Pisanello

/ pisaˈnɛllo /

noun

1. PisanelloAntonio?1395?1455MItalianARTS AND CRAFTS: painterMISC: medallist 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

Example Sentences

A drawing of female figures by Pisanello, probably made in the mid-1420s to the early 1430s, may or may not have been drawn from actual observation of female models, but if it was, then it was one of the earliest such drawings.

From Washington Post

From the workshop of the 15th-century painter Pisanello comes a sheet with five drawn of heads of young boys, each with a distinctive coiffure, and each ready to be, basically, Photoshopped into a painting.

From New York Times

The haircuts on the Pisanello boys — bowl-cuts, buzz-cuts, frohawks, fades — may well accurately document Northern Italian styles of the day.

From New York Times

The 17 paintings by Rubens, Tintoretto, Pisanello, Caroto, Mantegna were stolen from a museum in Verona, Italy, in 2015.

From US News

They tied up a cashier and took works by painters including Pisanello, Jacopo Bellini, Peter Paul Rubens and Hans de Jode.

From Time