Pollajolo Antonio
7 works documented in the Bruno Balestrini archive.
15th c.
Bust of a Young Warrior
Description: Terracotta, height cm 50. Datable shortly after 1470.
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Hercules and Antaeus
Description: Bronze, height cm 45. Commissioned by the Medici from the artist, who also treated the mythological theme of the Labours of Hercules in painting.
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Dialectic
Description: Bronze, height about cm 40. Detail of the tomb of Sixtus IV, executed in 1493.
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Funerary Monument of Pope Innocent VIII
Bronze, height about cm 400, 1492-1498. The image of the deceased is shown twice: dead, lying with eyes closed, and alive, seated in the act of blessing.
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15th c.
The Birth of the Baptist
Description: Silver, detail of the relief on the left side of the St. John altar, executed between 1477 and 1480. Pollaiolo had begun as a goldsmith and often returned to this activity during his life.
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Tomb of Pope Sixtus IV
Description: Bronze, detail of the Pope's head. The tomb was commissioned from Pollaiolo by the nephew of the deceased in 1493. Together with the funerary monument to Innocent III, this is the last great project carried out by the artist in Rome.
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