In the history of art, Antonio del Pollaiuolo is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Antonio del Pollaiuolo as Italian painter, sculptor and engraver (1429-1498).
Antonio del Pollaiuolo was born at Florence in 1433. His recorded nationality is Republic of Florence.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, sculptor and engraver.
Among his best-known works are Apollo and Daphne, Elevation of the Magdalen and Capitoline Wolf. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Republic of Florence shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Antonio del Pollaiuolo died in 1498, aged 65. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Apollo and Daphne
- Notable work: Elevation of the Magdalen
- Notable work: Capitoline Wolf
- Notable work: Battle of the Nudes
