Antonio di Puccio Pisano, called Pisanello (ca. 1394-1455)

Platt collection; after 1947, purchased by Vernon Hall (Madison, WI); 1977, deposited on long-term loan to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 19 November 1979, gifted by Vernon and Sandra Hall (Madison, WI) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

• Hill, George Francis. "A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance Before Cellini." London: British Museum, 1930. no. 87
• Hall, Vernon. "Catalogue of the Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1978. no. 73
• Armand, Alfred. "Les médailleurs italiens des quinzième et seizième siècles." 2nd ed. 3 vols. Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883-1887. I: p. 9, I: no. 25
• Chazen Museum of Art. "European Medals in the Chazen Museum of Art: Highlights from the Vernon Hall Collection and Later Acquisitions." Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, 2014. pp. 32-34, 146, cat. no. 7
• Pollard, John Graham with Eleonora Luciano and Maria Pollard. "Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Systemic Catalogue." Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2007. no. 59
• Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini." New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. no. 66
• Scher, Stephen K. "The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance." exh. cat. New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with The Frick Collection, 1994. no. 10
• Heiss, Aloïs. "Les médailleurs de la Renaissance." 9 vol. Paris: J. Rothchild, 1881-1892. pp. 8-9
• Friedlaender, Julius. "Die italienischen Schaumünzen des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts 1430-1530." Berlin: Weidmann, 1882. no. 27
• Hill, George Francis. "Pisanello." London: Duckworth; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. pp. 181-185
• Hill, George Francis. "Portrait Medals of Italian Artists of the Renaissance." London: P.L. Warner, publisher of the Medici Society, 1912. no. 5
• De Lorenzi, Giovanna, ed. "Medaglie di Pisanello e della sua cerchia." Florence: Museo nazionale del Bargello, 1983. no. 22
• Johnson, Cesare and Rodolfo Martini. "Catalogo delle medaglie I. Secolo XV." Milan: Comune de Milano, Ripartizione cultura, 1986. no. 315
• Stone, Alan N. "Pisanus Pictor, A Self-Portrait Medal?" The Medal 25 (1994): 3-5. pp. 3-5
• Rykwert, Joseph and Anne Engel, eds. "Leon Battista Alberti." exh. cat. Milan: Electa Editrice, 1994. no. 84
• Cordellier, Dominique, ed. "Pisanello: le peintre aux sept vertues." exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996. no. 1
• Börner, Lore. "Bestandskataloge des Münzkabinetts Berlin: Die italiensichen Medaillen der Renaissance und des Barock (1450-1750)." Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1997. no. 36
• Woods-Marsden, Joanna. "Pisanello et Moi: la naissance de l'autoportrait autonome." In "Pisanello. Actes du colloque organisé au Musée du Louvre.” vol. 1, edited by Dominique Cordellier and Bernardette Py, 263-295. Paris: La documentation française and Musée du Louvre, 1998. pp. 263-295
• Syson, Luke and Dillian Gordon. "Pisanello, Painter to the Renaissance Court." exh. cat. National Gallery, London. London: National Gallery Company and Cumberland, RI: Yale University Press, 2001. pp. 1-2, 194
• Donati, Angela, ed. "Il potere, le arti, la guerra. Lo splendore dei Malatesta." exh. cat. Castel Sismondo, Rimini. Milan: Electa, 2001. no. 101

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