THE POLLAIUOLO BROTHERS - THE ARTS OF FLORENCE AND ROME / ALISON WRIGHT / Yale University Press, 2005 / Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780300106251 / 978-0300106251 

ISBN-10: 0300106254

Pages 584

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Famous for their new treatment of berow, antique subjecn and the depiction of the male made in action, Antonio and Phem del Pollanuolo ran one of the most successful and advanced workshops in fifteenth-century Florence. This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated book re-examines the brothers' careers and surviving work to present a fresh understanding of their contributions to major development in the art of their time.

Almon Wright draws on new evidence to reassess the Pollanlo brothers' multi-faceted activity as painters, sculptors and designers and to set these work in the context of the changing social, political and cultural life of both Medicean Florence and papal Rome. Wright. comiders Antonio's and Piero's visual and thematic innovations as well as the ways in which the brothers production provides insights into the inter-relation of painting, goldanith work and sculpture. In a series of revelatory chapters on thenies ranging from portraiture to the design of bronze statuettes, the author shows how the brothers' self-conscious development of dotinct products in precious or novel media bodh informed their figure style and opened new markets for their work. The book provides the definitive account of the Pollaiuolo brothers and their workshop practice, accompanied by a comprehensive lit of works (some newly attributed), and a fally updated chronology

ALISON WRIGHT in Reader in Italian Late Medieval and Renance Art in the Department of Hatory of Art at Univerury College London. Her doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art (1992) examined the painting of the Pollaiuolo brothers. Her research and publicatiom have focussed on the notion of duge, aspects of art production across a range of media in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Italy, as well as on questions of patronage and social relatiom as they are figured in painting. She was co-organiser and co-author of the catalogue of the 1000-2000 exhibition Renaizane Flower The Art of the 14701 at the National Gallery, London.

Summery:

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.

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0300106254
• ISBN 13: 9780300106251
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 584