The Pollaiuolo Brothers – The Arts of Florence and Rome - Hardcover

Wright, Alison

9780300106251: The Pollaiuolo Brothers – The Arts of Florence and Rome

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300106254 ISBN 13: 9780300106251

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2005

Famous for their new treatment of heroic, antique subjects and the depiction of the male nude in action, Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo ran one of the most successful and advanced workshops in fifteenth-century Florence. This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated book reexamines the brothers' careers and multifaceted work to present a fresh understanding of their contributions to the development of Italian art. Art historian Alison Wright draws on new evidence to reassess the Pollaiuolo brothers' activities as painters, sculptors, and designers and to set their work in the context of the changing social, political, and cultural life of both Florence and Rome. She considers Antonio's and Piero's innovations as well as their self-conscious development of distinct products in precious or novel media. The book provides the definitive account of the Pollaiuolo brothers and their practices, a comprehensive list of their works (including some newly attributed), and a fully updated chronology.

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Review:

'....a massive book that will surely take its place as a fundamental source for the study of quattrocentro Florentine culture' -- Laurence Kantier, The Burlington Magazine, April 2006

'...[an] extraordinary book on the lives and work of two brothers wroking in Italy in the...15th century...' -- Church Times, 13th January 2006

'...a monument of scholarship' -- Martin Gayford, The Sunday Telegraph, November 27, 2005

'This is a large, sumptuous book, beautifully presented, lavishly illustrated and well written.' -- Bob Baggs, The Art Book, February 2006

About the Author:

Alison Wright is reader in Italian late medieval and Renaissance art in the Department of History of Art, University College, London.

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