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Piero Del Pollaiuolo
Piero del Pollaiuolo ( , , ; also spelled Pollaiolo; in Florence – 1496 in Rome), also known as Piero Benci, was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. His brother was the artist Antonio del Pollaiuolo and the two frequently worked together. Their work shows both classical influences and an interest in human anatomy; reportedly, the brothers carried out dissections to improve their knowledge of the subject. Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Piero del Pollaiuolo in his ''Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects''. Works *'' Profile Portrait of a Young Woman'' (c. 1465) – oil on wood *''The Archangel Raphael and Tobias'' (c. 1465–1470) *'' Cardinal del Portogallo Altarpiece'' (1467–1668) – altarpiece * Seven Virtues (1469–1470; six painted by Pollaiuolo): *: ''Charity'' *: ''Faith'' *: ''Temperance'' *: ''Prudence'' *: ''Hope'' *: ''Justice'' *'' Portrait of a Young Woman'' (c. 1470) *''Apollo and Daphne'' (c. 1470–1480) *'' P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronation Of The Virgin (Pollaiuolo)
The altarpiece of the Coronation of the Virgin by Piero del Pollaiuolo behind the high altar in the church of Sant'Agostino, San Gimignano in Tuscany, Italy, was painted in 1483. As the painter's only signed and dated work it is a key piece of evidence in the question of which paintings to attribute to Piero and which to his more famous brother, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, which has become a contentious subject in recent years. The painting is in tempera on panel, although recent technical analysis has shown that linseed oil was also used, a rather early example of oil painting for Florentine painting, found in other paintings by the Pollaiuolo brothers. Description The composition has an ''in aria'' zone where Christ crowns the Virgin Mary, flanked at a distance by angelic musicians and seraph-heads (body-less putti). Below the clouds on which the main figures are seated putti support a chalice representing the Eucharist; this sits on the head of the lowest. On the ground below ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardinal Del Portogallo Altarpiece
The ''Cardinal of Portugal's altarpiece'' (It: ''Pala del cardinale del Portogallo'') or ''Altarpiece for the Cardinal of Portugal's chapel'', is a painting of in tempera and oil on panel by one or both of the brothers Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo. It was painted for the altar in the Cardinal of Portugal's Chapel, a funerary chapel in the church of San Miniato al Monte in Florence, built for the prince and cardinal James of Portugal, who died in exile in Florence in 1459 at the age of 25. The painting is now in the Uffizi in Florence, with a copy in place in the chapel. Aspects of the painting reflect and connect with the setting it was made for, an elaborate newly-built funerary chapel, which in the Renaissance Republic of Florence aspired to revive the imperial style of many centuries before, drawing on the Late Antique monuments of Ravenna. Description The painting shows Saints Vincent, James the Great and Eustace, standing on a terrace high above a landscape ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Piero is an Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: *Piero Angela (1928–2022), Italian television host *Piero Barucci (born 1933), Italian academic and politician *Piero del Pollaiuolo (c. 1443–1496), Italian painter *Piero della Francesca (c1415–1492), Italian artist of the Early Renaissance * Piero De Benedictis (born 1945), Italian-born Argentine and Colombian folk singer *Piero Ciampi (1934–1980), Italian singer *Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522), also known as Piero di Lorenzo, Italian Renaissance painter *Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (1416–1469), ''de facto'' ruler of Florence from 1464 to 1469 *Piero Ferrari (born 1945), Italian businessman *Piero Focaccia (born 1944), Italian pop singer *Piero Fornasetti (1913–1988), Italian painter * Piero Gardoni (1934–1994), Italian professional footballer *Piero Golia (born 1974), Italian conceptual artist *Piero Gros (born 1954), Italian alpine skier *Piero the Unfortunate (1472–1503), Gran maestro of Florence * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charity (Pollaiuolo)
''Charity'' is a 1469 oil on panel painting by Piero del Pollaiuolo, now in the Uffizi in Florence. History Florence's Tribunale della Mercanzia (the body overseeing all the city's guilds) commissioned the artist to paint seven works portraying the cardinal virtues in a contract dated 18 August 1469. They were intended to decorated the seat-backs in its audience hall on piazza della Signoria. ''Charity'' was the first painting to be completed and was delivered in December 1469. The commission was temporarily transferred to Botticelli, probably after a delay by Pollaiuolo. Botticelli produced '' Fortitude'' before loud protests from Pollaiuolo and his brother Antonio that a second contract returned it to Piero and his studio produced the remaining six works in the series. In completing it, it is unclear how much of a contribution Antonio made to Piero's work and some art historians have attributed it instead entirely to Antonio. Billi, Albertini and Cruttwell argue from documents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Museum Of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art museums. The first portion of the approximately building was built in 1880. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sant'Agostino Di San Gimignano
The chiesa di Sant'Agostino (Church of St Augustine) is the second largest church in San Gimignano, Italy, after the Collegiata. It is owned by the Order of Saint Augustine. Sant'Agostino is an imposing 13th century building. The interior is a large hall dominated by the seventeen-panel fresco cycle on ''The Life of St Augustine'' around the high altar, painted by Benozzo Gozzoli between 1463 and 1467. The altarpiece is the ''Coronation of the Virgin'' by Piero del Pollaiuolo (1483). There are a number of other frescoes in the church. The ''Cappella di San Bartolo'' houses the remains of the eponymous saint (1228–1300), a lay Franciscan who died of leprosy. The magnificent altar in the chapel is by Benedetto da Maiano. External links Benozzo Gozzoli: A Gallery of Frescoes {{Coord, 43, 28, 14.53, N, 11, 02, 30.14, E, source:itwiki_region:IT_type:landmark, display=title 13th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Roman Catholic churches in San Gimignano Monaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martyrdom Of Saint Sebastian (Pollaiuolo)
The ''Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian'' is a work by Piero del Pollaiuolo, commissioned by the Florentine Pucci family and now in the National Gallery, London. History The Pucci family commissioned it as the altarpiece for the family chapel, the oratory dedicated to Saint Sebastian in the church of Santissima Annunziata, Florence. Giorgio Vasari dates it to 1475 but misattributes it to Piero's brother, the more famous and artistically talented Antonio – a misattribution that lasted until the present day. Roberto Pucci withdrew the work from the oratory on the pretext of restoration but then in 1857 sold it to the National Gallery. Analysis It is considered Piero's masterpiece, with a more rigid geometric control on the composition than in his previous works, without giving up his usual naturalness of poses and movement – the four archers in the foreground form two symmetrical poses, with the two central ones reloading and the two on the edges firing, in perfect equilibrium ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of A Woman (Pollaiuolo)
''Portrait of a Woman'' is a c.1475 tempera and oil on panel painting by Antonio or Piero del Pollaiuolo. It has been in the Uffizi in Florence since 1861. Since 1861 it has been misattributed to Piero della Francesca, a young Leonardo da Vinci and Cosimo Rosselli. It forms part of a group of profile portraits of women which also includes one in Milan, one at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and another at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Berenson attributes the more accomplished works in the group to Antonio and the others (along with the weaker sections of the better works) to Piero. Other art historians attribute them all to Piero on the grounds that Vasari mentions Antonio only as an engraver and sculptor and not as a painter. A third group attributes all the profiles to Piero and other mythological, action and battle scenes among the Pollaiolo oeuvre to Antonio. AA.VV., ''Galleria degli Uffizi'', collana ''I Grandi Musei del Mondo'', R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Galeazzo Maria Sforza
''Portrait of Galeazzo Maria Sforza'' is an oil on panel painting by Piero del Pollaiuolo, now in the Uffizi in Florence. It was produced in 1471 on Galeazzo Maria Sforza's third visit to Florence to strengthen his alliance with Lorenzo the Magnificent. The chronicles of the time refer to his entering the city on 13 March that year wearing "a blue brocade with lilies, as the French device and arms" - it is this costume that appears in the portrait. The work was restored in 1994, showing that it had been painted directly onto an unprepared panel in the Flemish manner. It may thus have originally formed a diptych with a portrait of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino - both works were recorded in the "camera di Lorenzo" in a 1492 inventory of the Palazzo Medici. Gloria Fossi, ''Uffizi'', Giunti, Firenze 2004. References {{15C-painting-stub Paintings in the Uffizi Paintings by Piero del Pollaiuolo Sforza The House of Sforza () was a ruling family of Renaissance Italy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo And Daphne (Pollaiuolo)
''Apollo and Daphne'' is a c.1470–1480 oil on panel painting, attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo and/or his brother Antonio). William Coningham acquired it in Rome in 1845 and in 1876 Wynne Ellis left it to the National Gallery, London, where it still hangs. It shows Daphne's transformation into a laurel tree to escape Apollo in Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. Its choice of wood as a support and its small dimensions mean that it was long mistaken as a fragment of a decorative cassone A cassone (plural ''cassoni'') or marriage chest is a rich and showy Italian type of chest, which may be inlaid or carved, prepared with gesso ground then painted and gilded. ''Pastiglia'' was decoration in low relief carved or moulded in gesso .... Like '' The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian'' it was also long attributed to Antonio but is now usually attributed to Piero. The background vegetation was previously brighter but is now irreversibly oxidized.Louise Govier, ''The National Gallery, guida per i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of A Young Woman (Pollaiuolo)
''Portrait of a Young Woman'' is a mixed-technique painting on panel of , variously attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo or his brother Antonio. It is now in Milan in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, which uses the painting as its symbol. History The work is one of the most celebrated and best preserved Renaissance portraits of a woman in profile of those attributed to one of the two Pollaiuolo brothers. It is often compared to '' Portrait of a Woman'' at the Uffizi, as well as to similar portraits held in the Staatliche Museen, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Similar facial features can also be seen in ' by Andrea della Robbia. These works have traditionally been attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo, but recent critics, such as Aldo Galli, have proposed attributions to Antonio. The identity of the subject of the portrait in Milan is unclear. Various names have been proposed, including the wife of the banker Giovanni de' Bardi (based on the proba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice (Pollaiuolo)
''Justice'' is a 1470 oil on panel painting by Piero del Pollaiuolo, now in the Uffizi in Florence. History Florence's Tribunale della Mercanzia (the body overseeing all the city's guilds) commissioned the artist to paint seven works portraying the cardinal virtues in a contract dated 18 August 1469. They were intended to decorated the seat-backs in its audience hall on piazza della Signoria. ''Charity'' was the first painting to be completed and was delivered in December 1469. The commission was temporarily transferred to Botticelli, probably after a delay by Pollaiuolo. Botticelli produced '' Fortitude'' before loud protests from Pollaiuolo and his brother Antonio led to a second contract returning the commission to Piero and his studio to produce the remaining six works in the series. In completing it, it is unclear how much of a contribution Antonio made to Piero's work and some art historians have attributed it instead entirely to Antonio. Billi, Albertini and Cruttwell argu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
