PISANELLO TO CIMA DA CONEGLIANO 



material damage by worrying children and attacking 

 grown-up people. 



A botanist would at once notice the beauty of the pinks 

 and columbines in the so-called Isabella dEste (Louvre), 

 but our present inquiry is not concerned with vegetable 

 life. There are, however, three fine butterflies ; the 

 Red Admiral has evidently been studied from a dead 

 specimen. It will be noticed that whoever has set it 

 has pulled the upper wings a little too far forward. 

 The Clouded Yellow is also seen amongst the foliage, 

 and the Rare Swallow-tail. 



A tondo of the AdoT'ation (Berlin) was formerly 

 attributed to Pisanello, but is probably only painted 

 under his influence. There are points about it which 

 are irreconcilable with the authorship. Still, it is full 

 of interest, and of course the authenticity of a picture 

 makes no difference in its value for our present purpose. 

 A painter equally illustrates the tendency of his time, 

 whether he be Pisanello or another. Two falcons attack 

 a heron ; one of them has risen above its quarry, which 

 points its long sharp beak upwards to ward off the down- 

 ward stroke. This is just the method which Spenser 

 describes In the Faerie Queene. 



" As when a cast of falcons make their flight 

 At an heronshaw that lyes aloft on wing. 

 The whiles they strike at him with heedless might. 

 The wary foule his bill doth backward wring. 

 69 



