#Antonio del Pollaiuolo

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'Archangel Michael and the Dragon' by Antonio del Pollaiuolo, 1470

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Michelangelo's David is kitsch, and was the day it was sculpted.

The Discobolus of Myron is kitsch, and was the day it was sculpted.

The right half of Botero's Adam and Eve is kitsch, and was the day it was painted.

Pollaiuolo's Battle of the Nudes is kitsch, and was the day it was engraved.

No matter how much these works are puffed up in art history classes the world over, male nudity is inherently disgusting and kitsch, and always has been.

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detail of Capitoline Wolf and the Antonio del Pollaiuolo Twins

Capitoline Wolf suckling Romulus and Remus - bronze - Capitoline Museum, Rome - wolf (disputed): 5th century Etruscan or 11th-12th century Italian, twins: late 15th century.

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Antonio del Pollaiuolo - David

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Antonio del Pollaiuolo

Kampf der nackten Männer/Battle of the Nude Men

ca. 1470-1475

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Elevation of the Magdalen by Antonio del Pollaiuolo (1460, oil and tempera on panel)

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Battle of Ten Nudes, 1460-75

Antonio del Pollaiuolo (Italian, 1431/32 - 1498)

Burin engraving

383 x 595 mm

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

An authentic icon in the history of engraving, this is one of the most famous of the many images reproduced using the new printing methods of the early Renaissance, and the first work to be clearly signed by its maker. Many formal elements contribute to its unique significance, such as the exceptionally large format for the time and the programmatic nature of the composition which explicitly draws on figurative themes from classical antiquity.

Characterized by a mysterious subject matter, the composition rejects any connection to a literary text of Roman history or mythology, or indeed any specific moral or allegorical interpretation. Instead, it appears to be an exercise in anatomical mastery, exhibiting the irrepressible and almost visionary vitality that was the very essence of the trained goldsmith's art. The chronology of the work is also uncertain but certain compositional similarities to the Martyrdom of St Sebastian (completed by the artist in 1475 and currently exhibited at the National Gallery in London) suggest a date between the early 1460s and 1470s. The printing date is also problematic in that it involves the knotty question of mutual influences between Pollaiolo and Andrea Mantegna in terms of graphic style, and the question as to which of the two artists first employed the new engraving technique.

Source: Web Gallery of Art

Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Battle of the Naked Men, 1465–1475

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Antonio del Pollaiuolo, “Saint Michael the Archangel Killing the Dragon”, circa 1465-70

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Hercules and the Hydra and Hercules and Anteo (1470s) by Antonio del Pollaiuolo

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Arc Angel Hank..Antonio del Pollaiuolo, 1470

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Das Metropolitan Museum - New York

Autor: J. J. Rorimer, E. A. Standen Titel: Malerei der Welt - Das Metropolitan Museum in New York Verlag: DuMont Schauberg Erschienen: 1959 Sprache: Deutsch - El Greco - Werkstatt des Giotto - Piero di Cosimo - Andrea Mantegna - Robert Campin - Dirk Bouts - Hieronymus Bosch - Caravaggio - Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn - Velasquez - Jusepe Ribera - Francesco Guardi - John Constable - Constance Marie Charpentier - Gustave Courbet - Pesellino - Giovanni di Paolo - Sassetta - Andrea del Verrocchio - Antonio Pollaiuolo - Carlo Crivelli - Fra Carnevale - Antonello da Messina - Vittore Carpaccio - Sandro Botticelli - Raffael - Hubert van Eyck - Rogier van der Weyden - Petrus Christus - Hugo van der Goes - Hans Memling - Joachim Patinir - Lucas Cranach der Ältere - Albrecht Dürer - Pieter Bruegel der Ältere - Hans Holbein der Jüngere - Bronzino - Tizian - Tintoretto - Veronese - Anton van Dyck - Edouard Manet - Claude Monet - Edgar Degas - Pierre Auguste Renoir - Paul Cezanne - Georges Seurat - Vincent van Gogh - Paul Gauguin - Peter Paul Rubens - Nicolas Poussin - Jacob Isaacksz Van Ruisdael - Meindert Hobbema - Jan Vermeer van Delft - Frans Hals - Francisco de Goya - Jean-Antoine Watteau - Francois Boucher - Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin - Canaletto - Joshua Reynolds - Joseph Mallord William Turner - Thomas Lawrence - Jaques Louis David - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Honore Daumier - Jean Baptiste Camille Corot Read the full article