Antonio Pashello Research Paper

The Renaissance was a big explosion of the arts, science, social, and political thoughts in Europe after the Middle Ages. After The Black Plague, Europe lost half or more of its population the market went down. With less people living the less costumers there was for any type of trade but then the population suddenly got higher than it ever was before and more trades and marketplaces, more discovery of science and more art going around and thus was born the Renaissance! Some of the most famous people from the Renaissance were Leonardo Da Vinci, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael (basically the ninja turtles), Sofonisba Anguissola, and one of the most important people of the Renaissance was Pisanello. Antonio Pisano or otherwise known as Pisanello was an Italian artist and medalist that was born 1395 around Pisa. Pisanello’s only family that I could find in my research was his parents and that he was never married. His father was a wealthy cloth merchant and and his mother was a native of Verona. For most of his life he lived in Verona, Rome, and Ferrara. In his early career around 1419-1422 Pisanello was living in Venice collaborating with Gentile Da Fabriano to work on Doges’ Palace then in Rome around 1427 in St. John Lateran. Around 1432-1439 Pisanello was moving back and forth between Verona and Ferrara. Some of his influences Stefano Da Verona, Bono Da Ferrara, Altichiero, and Gentile Da Fabriano. Pisanello made a variety of different paintings and …show more content…
This international gothic style painting is now held in the Castelvecchio Museum of Verona. The background was punched and tooled gold and has very amazing value to it. With the texture of the hair on the woman and child and details on the birds and angels it is a marvelous piece. Since Pisanello was around Gentile Da Fabriano the time Madonna of the Quail was made, it looks similar and was probably inspired by Gentile Da Fabriano’s Madonna of the Rose