Antonio Pisano, called Pisanello (c. 1393-1455), was one of the most distinguished and sought-after artists of his generation. His lyrical and delicate style was already celebrated by the poets and humanists of his time, unlike Masaccio's new and powerful pictorial language. Prior to arrival of the leading masters of the High Renaissance, Raphael and Michelangelo, no other Italian painter was as widely acclaimed.
The variety and quantity of Pisanello's graphic output was not the work of a single individual but the result of an extensive workshop. Hence, the distinction between Pisanello's autograph drawings and those by his school remains a central problem to any research in the field.
The Taccuino di viaggio, a group of model-book drawings assembled during the artists' travels is an important document for Pisanello's close connection with his workshop, testifying to his powerful influence on his pupils and collaborators.
Fifty one drawings on vellum may be considered as having once belonged to the Taccuino di viaggio. At the latest, this sketch book was broken up in Padre Resta's time (1635-1714). The sheets, today preserved in several public collections, from Bayonne to Vienna, are now for the first time published and fully reproduced in their entirety.

In cooperation with Hans-Joachim Eberhardt, Susanne Wagini, Gudrun Dauner, Andrea Teuscher.
Photographs: Engelbert Seehuber.

2004.
Vol. I, text: 220 pp., 164 figs.
Vol. II, catalogue: 364 pp., 97 pls., 264 figs.
ISBN 3-930609-45-2
ISBN 3-930609-46-0
EUR 248,-