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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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theyhad decorated a vestment that was but little worn.Not only for beauty of composition and admirableperspective is this design of value, but as a genrepicture, illustrating Florentine domestic life of thefifteenth century. In a richly decorated room, whosewalls are hung with blue brocade embroidered withgold, S. Elizabeth lies in a low bed, which a maidbehind bends over holding a tray of refreshments.The panels of the coffered ceiling, the brocade of thewalls, and the draperies of the bed, are executed withextraordinary realism, and it is marvellous that theembroiderer has been able so successfully to reproducethe depth of interior space across the room and downthe corridor beyond, keeping the values of space betweenthe figures. At the foot of the bed is seated a charmingyouthful figure asleep. In the foreground is the childon its nurses knee, which other women prepare toclothe, one warming the little shirt at a portable stove,the other bending over it admiringly. No more charm- XIX
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Alina7 EMBROIDERY. BIRTH OF BAPTIST. DESIGN BY ANTONIOPOLLAIUOLO. MUSEO DELL OPERA DEL DUOMO, FLORENCE Face p. 112 DESIGNS FOR EMBROIDERIES 113 ing and realistic scene of a Florentine interior exists incontemporary art. No. 4—Zaccharias naming the Child—is not sodelicately stitched. The composition has Antoniospyramidal grouping and the architectural perspectiveis good. The scene is treated in the same intimatemanner as the above, and the figures of the nurseholding the Child and of Zaccharias, who writes in acramped position, with the scroll upon his knee, andthe inkpot in his hand, are as crudely realistic studiesas one could find in a painting by Teniers. The womanwho stands behind, wrapped in toga-like draperies, is,on the other hand, noble and statuesque. After this follow three scenes which seem to bealmost entirely the work of assistants. First, theBaptist preaching in the desert, surrounded by sevenfigures, all tame and feeble. Second, the Arrest of theBaptist, which is po

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