Pisanello
Arthurian chivalric cycle: warriors, detail of fresco.

In the “conspiracy” that surrounds the saga of the Graal, the cycles of frescoes painted by Pisanello and commissioned by Ludovico Gonzaga in about 1440, merit respect. Firstly, the work was unfinished. Then it was partially, if not substantially, destroyed: the collapse of the ceiling beams, then heavy marks scored with a pick-axe and covered by a coat of lime and a complete reconstruction of the Hall until it was literally destroyed. Forgotten and cancelled. Finally, the casual, if not miraculous, discovery in the quite recent ‘60s of the last century and the difficult but advantageous recovery. Unusual for the time, the Hall did not have a name (for example “the knights of the Round Table” or “Lancelot”) but was known as the Hall of Pisanello as if to give great importance to the artist or to leave him all the responsibility for what he has painted.