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Title: Antonio Pollaiuolo
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Cruttwell, Maud
Subjects: Pollaiolo, Antonio, 1426?-1498 Pollaiolo, Piero, ca. 1443-1496
Publisher: London : Duckworth and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ventory of the Medici possessions, madeby the Grand Duke Ferdinand in 1589, as follows. ** Una figurinadi bronzo modernadetta una paura, alta soldi 11 posa sur una baseornata di legname colorita di mistio . . . ** Una figura di bronzoantico intera igniuda duna paura posa sur una basa di bronzo altabraccia §. And again in the Inventory of 1684. *• Una statuettedi bronzo alta soldi undici di un giovane che ha intorno alia bocchauna fascia e fa atti con le mani . . . Una figurina tutta dibronzo che fa atti con le mani e pare che abbia una fascia aliaDoccha e posa sopra una basa lunga pure di bronzo, il tutto altof in circha. Other more detailed descriptions are given in later in-ventories. The other two statuettes were bought in 1769. (SeeCatalogo del R. Museo Nazionale, 1898, p. 386.) Other copiesexist in the Berlin Museum, in the Louvre, and in the Collection ofMr. Pierpont Morgan. In the so-called Raffaelle Sketch-Book arestudies of the figure drawn from several points of view. XII
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Alinari BUST OF YOUNG WARRIOR. TERRA GOTTA. BY ANTONIOPOLLAIUOLO. MUSEO NAZIONALE, FLORENGE Face p. 82 EARLY PAINTED WORK 83 gripping its throat with the same energy as in theCombat with the Hydra^ in the other he strangles theserpents. So vigorous in action are the figures, so con-centrated in effort, that the eye involuntarily rests firstupon them, diverted somewhat unduly from the faceabove. As the bust dates most likely from the sameperiod as the early paintings of Antonio, it may beconsidered here. It is probably a portrait of one of theMedici, whose type of face and arrogant bearing itresembles closely. It is evidently modelled with theintention of casting in bronze, and the clay has beenpainted in imitation, either by Antonio himself or sub-sequently. This paint has cracked in places and peeledoff to the great damage of the delicate modelling. Ithas suffered much in other ways, the arms havingapparently been broken from the shoulder, which givesit a curious jar-like look. The d

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