Antonio Pollaiolo

{"Id":2764,"Name":"Antonio Pollaiolo","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EPOLLAIUOLO, ANTONIO (1429-1498),\u003C/strong\u003E distinguished himself as a sculptor, jeweller, painter and engraver, and did valuable service in perfecting the art of enamelling. His painting exhibits an excess of brutality, of which the characteristics can be studied in the \u003Cu\u003ESaint Sebastian\u003C/u\u003E, painted in 1475, and now in the National Gallery, London. A \u003Cu\u003ESt Christopher and the Infant Christ\u003C/u\u003E is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. But it was as a sculptor and metal-worker that he achieved his greatest successes. The exact ascription of his works is doubtful, as his brother \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/pollaiolo_piero.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EPiero\u003C/a\u003E [c.1441-1496] did much in collaboration with him. The museum of Florence contains the bronze group \u003Cu\u003EHercules strangling Cacus\u003C/u\u003E and the terra-cotta bust \u003Cu\u003EThe Young Warrior\u003C/u\u003E; and in the South Kensington Museum, London, is a bas-relief representing a contest between naked men. In 1489 Antonio took up his residence in Rome, where he executed the tomb of Sixtus IV. (1493), a composition in which he again manifested the quality of exaggeration in the anatomical features of the figures. In 1496 he went to Florence in order to put the finishing touches to the work already begun in the sacristy of Santo Spirito. He died in 1498, having just finished his mausoleum of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08019b.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EInnocent VIII. [1432-1492], and was buried in the church of San Pietro in Vincula, where a monument was raised to him near that of his brother.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on the artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://100.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PO/POLLAIUOLO_FAMILY_.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E1911 Edition Encyclopedia\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":15}