Antonio Pisano y Enrique Giner: dos visiones medallísticas sobre Alfonso V El Magnánimo.

Abstract

Antonio Pisano, called ilPisanello, and Enrique Giner are two of the most renowned medallists to have ever practiced the art. In addition, both explored the stylistic and symbolic capacity of the art of medal engraving, working, among their many commissions, on a personage common to both of them, a man of extraordinary importance in Valencian history: Alfonso the Magnanimous. Pisano crafted his medal during the height of the Renaissance, while Giner executed his version in the twentieth century. Both artists managed to reflect different aspects of the monarch, in accordance with what their patrons demanded and, above all, the dictates of the epoch in which they worked. This study explores the aesthetic and iconographical paths that both authors took in their distinct representations and explores their ideological backgrounds.