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Title: Antonio Pollaiuolo
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Cruttwell, Maud
Subjects: Pollaiolo, Antonio, 1426?-1498 Pollaiolo, Piero, ca. 1443-1496
Publisher: London : Duckworth and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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y Antonio betweenthe designs for the Embroideries and the Relief of theSilver Altar, is the Altarpiece of S. Sebastian, paintedfor the Pucci Chapel in the SS. Annunziata, now in theNational Gallery, and for the date of this—1475—wehave no authority but Vasaris statement. We have,however, the following documentary notices of gold-smiths work of this epoch, all of which has unfor-tunately perished. In 1472 he was commissioned by the Signoria toexecute a silver helmet, goblets and other vessels, to bepresented to Federigo di Montefeltro, Count of Urbino,in recognition of his services, as Captain of the troopsof the Republic, in reducing Volterra to submission.(Doc. XVI. p. 272.) In 1473 he was again commissionedby the Signoria to make a large silver basin for use inthe Chapel, and of this we have the notice that it waswrought with garlands smdputti. (Doc. XVIII. p. 273.)The basin is mentioned in the Inventory of the treasurebelonging to the Signoria, made on September i, 1473, XXXIII
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Hanfstaengl S. SEBASTIAN. BY ANTONIO AND PIERO POLLAIUOLONATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON Face p. mo THE PUCCI ALTARPIECE 151 in the following words, A large new basin withgarlands of babies of silver in the middle/ * In 1473 hemade a Silver Cross for the Church of the Carmine, atthe cost of 170 florins, money left for the purpose byMadonna Bonina de Ricci.t Of the Altarpiece of S. Sebastian (Plate XXXIII.)the best known and most popular of all Antoniospaintings, Vasari gives the following notice: In the Chapel of the Pucci, in the Servi, Antonioexecuted the picture for the Altar of S. Sebastian, whichis of rare excellence ; in which are admirable horses, nudes,and most beautiful foreshortened figures, and the S.Sebastian himself portrayed from life, that is, from Ginodi Lodovico Capponi: and this work was more praisedthan any other painted by Antonio. Wherefore in orderto imitate nature as far as possible, he painted in one ofthe archers, who, pressing his bow against his breast,bends to the

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