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Identifier: antoniopollaiuol00crut (find matches)
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
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y resemble them. Thesoldiers too are finely posed, but the Baptist is morecommonplace and conventional. The perspective of theprison courtyard and the loggia is admirable. No. ID of this group—Salome presenting the head ofthe Baptist to Herodias, (Plate XXI.)—is again verycharacteristic of his love of swift movement. Salomewhirls into the room with the impetus of the wind. Itis an original and strange conception of the scene—Herodias seated like some barbaric Idol in its niche,and the childish figure of her daughter, who shows thehead with a childs delight in a new toy. Thequattrocento conception of Salome was certainly notthat of our own day. With this ends the work of Antonio himself. Theremaining scenes—The Bearing of the body to theSepulchre and the Entombment—seem to have beenleft entirely to assistants, and have little merit either inthe treatment of the figures or of the landscapes, whichare purely conventional. In spite of the seriousness of the subject and of the XX
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Alniari EMBROIDERY. DECOLLATION OF BAPTIST. DESIGN BY ANTONIOPOLLAIUOLO. MUSEO DELL OPERA DEL DUOiMO, FLORENCE Face p. 114 DESIGNS FOR EMBROIDERIES 115 science with which composition, perspective, constructionand action of the figures, are handled, there is in thewhole series a touch of naivete^ almost of humour.Antonio seems to have conceived the scenes in a vein ofgaiety, almost as though he were illustrating a fairy-story for children. In this they recall Carpaccio\s Storyof S. Ursula, but while this levity is in harmony withthe temperament of the Venetian, it is a curiousdeparture from the usual severity of PoUaiuolo. CHAPTER VIII PAINTINGS AND STUDIES FROM THE NUDE 1464-1470 No documentary record exists of other work executedby Antonio during the years in which he was occupiedon the designs for the embroideries, yet it is unlikelythat these took up much of his time or were even theprincipal work on which he was employed. These werethe years of his full maturity, and it may be pre

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