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| Visions of St Eustace |
Pisanello, known professionally as Antonio de Puccio Pisano was born approximately 1395 and died approximately 1455 in Italy.
Many of his paintings were murals on plastered walls and they did not survive.
Notable because he had a keen eye for dogs. In the lead image you can clearly discern dogs very similar to today's grayhounds, scent hounds and spaniels in the foreground.
He even painted ankle-biters. It is rumored that ladies liked small dogs because they were flea-magnets. It was easier to get the fleas on the dog and wash the dog than to wash the bales of clothing and petticoats that fine ladies wore during the 1400s.
Perhaps the pooch was trained to hold a stick in his mouth before he was led into the castle's carp-pond. The fleas migrated to the stick which the dog was commanded to release.
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