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Title: Italian medals
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fabriczy, Cornelius von, 1839-1910
Subjects: Medals Medals, Renaissance Renaissance
Publisher: London : Duckworth
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ch accentuates only the essential.Masterly is the way in which he catches the bold poise of thehead, reproduces the clear strong outline of the profile, givesconcentrated expression to passionate ferocity and untamedenergy, as well as to high intellectual endowment or pro-foundly contemplative character. Nay, in the single womansportrait that we possess by his hand, that of the twenty-three-year-old Cecilia Gonzaga (1447), later renowned for her learn-ing and piety, he fascinates us by the refined charm of ex-pression, a refinement we had scarcely expected in the pitilessobserver of the coarser realism of life (PI. IV.). And all thisbreathing life is evoked by his genius with the most simplemeans. His conception of a subject combines the mostaustere severity with the most attractive freshness; hismodelling, invariably simple, scorns all superfluous detail; histechnique is based on the most intimate knowledge of thematerial, losing no advantage that it offers, without ever 30 Plate III
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MALATESTA NOVELLO BY PISANO F.irc J,. 30 Vittore Pisano and his Successors seeking to force from it anything unsuited to its nature. Onlyto speak of examples which we reproduce, how faithfully doesthe profile portrait (and Pisanello made without exceptiononly profiles) of Palaeologus (1438) depict stiff self-satisfaction ;that of Sigismondo Malatesta (1445) the cold haughtiness andsavage determination of this prototype of the tyrant ofRenaissance times (PI. II.) ; how does that of his brotherNovello, along with the unmistakable family likeness, revealthe gentler character with its susceptibility to noble influences(PI. III.); that of Alfonso I. of Naples (1449) candid magnani-mity (PI. V.) ; that of Vittorino of Feltre, the much sought-after humanist teacher, the spiritual features of the scholar(PI. VII., i) ; finally that of Inigo Davalos (PI. VI.) the self-contained character of the noble Grand Seneschal of KingAlfonso. Almost greater is Pisanello in the designs for his reverses.Wi

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