. Italian medals . nd schools, which, moreespecially in the matter of illustration, filled the gaps left byhis predecessor, since they depicted all the works of the artisttreated of in each case. The death of the compiler unfortun-ately prevented the completion of the extensive CorpusNumismatum which he had planned, and which thus suppliesno information on the artists and works of Verona, Mantua,Milan, Padua, Bologna, and Rome, to say nothing of anony-mous artists.^ All further writings on the medals of the Italian Renaissancemust be based on these three fundamental works ; and we alsoshall fo
. Italian medals . nd schools, which, moreespecially in the matter of illustration, filled the gaps left byhis predecessor, since they depicted all the works of the artisttreated of in each case. The death of the compiler unfortun-ately prevented the completion of the extensive CorpusNumismatum which he had planned, and which thus suppliesno information on the artists and works of Verona, Mantua,Milan, Padua, Bologna, and Rome, to say nothing of anony-mous artists.^ All further writings on the medals of the Italian Renaissancemust be based on these three fundamental works ; and we alsoshall follow them in our survey of the subject in the followingpages. ^ The reader will find further information concerning the literature on this subject, moreespecially concerning the three last quoted works, in two articles by the author in theZeitschrift fiir bildende Kunst, 1884, pp. 360 flf., and in the supplement to the AllgenieineZeitung of September 23rd, 1884. 24 II VITTORE PISANO AND HIS SUCCESSORSIN NORTH ITALY. LIONKLLO DKSTK. BY PISANO hn,: p. 2b II VITTORE PISANO AND HIS SUCCESSORSIN NORTH ITALY HEN we remember how the idea of posthumous fame determined the revival of the medal, we shall not be surprised that, of the two places which gave birth to the Renaissance, it was not in republican Florence, but amid the Courts of the splendour-loving and ambitious princes so numerous in North Italy, that the commemorative medal first appeared as a fresh means for their glorification. To Verona, the art-loving city, which throughout the entire fourteenth century had possessed a school of painters vying in importance with the Florentine Giottesques, belongs the glory of having given birth to Vittore Pisano, surnamed Pisanello (circa 1380-1451), the creator of the Renaissance medal. We are not acquainted with the immediate circumstances of his life ; we only know that, one of the earliest followers of the 27
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