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A fascinating survey of the painting, drawing, sculpture and work in precious stones and metals of two major figures in fifteenth century Renaissance Florence, Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo.
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Aldo Galli is an art historian for the Soprintendenza of Monuments and Fine Arts of Liguria. He is a professor at Siena University and L’Aquila University. He is a contributor to Prospettiva and Nuovi Studi. He contributed to a number of exhibitions and catalogs, including Duccio, Francesco di Giorgio e il Rinascimento a Siena, Il Gotico a Piacenza, Masaccio e le origini del Rinascimento, Omaggio al Beato Angelico, and Una scuola per Piero.
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- Publication date2006
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Antonio (1431/1432-1498) and Piero (1441/1442-after 1485) del Pollaiuolo have always enjoyed a certain notoriety and, together with Verrocchio, Botticelli, and Ghirlandaio, occupy a central place in all books about Florentine art at the time of Lorenzo the Magnificent. However, the image we now have of these two bold artists, the sons of a chicken vendor in the old market of Florence, is rather misty. It is generally thought that Piero, ten years younger than his brother, was merely an assistant to the multi-talented Antonio, who excelled in disciplines as various as painting, sculpture, silver and gold work, and architecture.This view is attributable to Vasari but fails to correspond to the respect in which both artists were held at the time and probably deserves to be reconsidered. The almost total disappearance of brooches, necklaces, cups, bowls, candlesticks, crosses, incense-burners, chalices, and reliquaries made of gold, silver, enamel, and precious stones created by Antonio has greatly harmed the reputation of this highly talented artist. These objects are all documented, but they were all at some stage melted down and their precious materials reused (a common fate for many pieces of gold and silver plate). The visionary and dramatic imagination of the man Florence proudly remembered at his death, calling him 'our citizen, a famous sculptor of unrivalled skill in his art,' is displayed especially by the two bronze tombs of Pope Sixtus IV and Pope Innocent VIII in St. Peter's and by a wonderful body of drawings. In these autograph sheets, Antonio's sure line, precise as a scalpel, gives birth to a race of fabulous heroes with superhuman build, chests expanded to the utmost, lithe and elastic arms and legs: gladiators, archers, musclemen, martyrs. The two funerary monuments in the Vatican, which amazed the artist's contemporaries, mark the highpoint of Antonio's career. One of his most impressive works is the highly original tomb designed for Sixtus IV, a great bronze creation covered with panels containing allegorical figures that was designed to fit into the chapel the Pope himself had built for the purpose, decorating it with ancient porphyry columns and frescoes by Perugino. It is no surprise that such a masterpiece of bombastic commemorative intent should have been commissioned by the dead Pope's nephew, Giuliano della Rovere, who as Pope Julius II in turn engaged Michelangelo to design a tomb for him that would surpass even his uncle's in inventive magnificence. AUTHOR: Aldo Galli is a contract lecturer at the Universities of Siena and L'Aquila. His interest is mainly in fifteenth-century Italian painting and sculpture and he has contributed a number of articles and essays on this theme to collective publications (such as La bottega dell'artista tra Medioevo e Rinacimento, Milan 1998). He has also helped organise a number of exhibitions, including Masaccio e le origini del Rinascimento (San Giovanni Valdarno 2002) and Duccio (Siena 2003 2004). 32 colour, 5 b/w images A fascinating survey of the painting, drawing, sculpture and work in precious stones and metals of two major figures in fifteenth century Renaissance Florence, Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9788874391301
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