PISANELLO

Italian edition with English translation

Pisanello

(about 1395-1455) and the frescoes in Mantua (1439-44 or 1447)

In the “conspiracy" that surrounds the saga of the Graal, the cycles of frescoes painted by Pisanello and commissioned by Ludovico Gonzaga in about 1440, merit respect. Firstly, the work was unfinished. Then it was partially, if not substantially, destroyed: the collapse of the ceiling beams, then heavy marks scored with a pick-axe and covered by a coat of lime and a complete reconstruction of the Hall until it was literally  destroyed.