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TRANSACTIONS OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
VITTOEE PISANO, MEDALLIST. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY J. SHELLY. 
(Read 8th December, 1887.) 
Yittore Pisano (called Pisanello), of Verona, born about 1380, 
died probably in 1451. Famous among his contemporaries as a 
painter. Painted frescoes at Verona, Venice, and Rome ; also 
panel pictures, of which there is one in the National Gallery. 
Entitled to a place in the history of art chiefly as a medallist. 
His medals the earliest and among the finest of modern medals. 
The medallists of Italy, Germany, France, and England. Pisano's 
medals and those of the fifteenth century generally are cast, and 
not struck. Later medals are struck. Difference of character 
and style. Subjects of Pisano's twenty-four extant medals. The 
Estensi, Malatesti, and Gonzaghi, and Alfonso V. of Arragon. 
The art of the Eenaissance. The age of the despots. The value 
of the medals as works of art. The sphere and limitations of 
medallic art. Principles of design and composition illustrated by 
the medals. Pisano's medals compared with more recent works. 
The jubilee coinage and jubilee medal. 
The lecture was illustrated by drawings and photographs, and 
by casts from the original medals in the British Museum. 
GRATTAN'S PARLIAMENT. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY GILBERT SLATER, B.A. 
(Read 15th December, 1887.) 
Origin and early development of the Irish Parliament. Ireland 
under the Tudors and Stuarts. Penal laws and commercial dis- 
abilities. The land question in the eighteenth century. Manners 
and customs. Whiteboys. Smuggling. The Irish squireen. Rise 
of national feeling. 
