Pollaiuolo

Italian Pol·lai·o·lo

[poh-lahy-woh-loh, pawl-lahy-waw-law]

noun

1. Antonio 1429–98, Italian sculptor, painter, and goldsmith.

2. his brother Piero 1443–96, painter, sculptor, and goldsmith.

Pollaiuolo

/ pollajˈwɔːlo /

noun

1. Antonio (anˈtɔːnjo), ?1432–98, Florentine painter, sculptor, goldsmith, and engraver: his paintings include the Martyrdom of St Sebastian

2. his brother Piero (ˈpjɛːro). ?1443–96, Florentine painter and sculptor

Example Sentences

Scholar Jill Burke speculates that some depictions of male nakedness, such as Pollaiuolo’s famous large-scale Battle of the Nudes, may owe as much to Europeans’ encounters with the “barbarous” people of sub-Saharan Africa as to the more obvious example of Roman sarcophagi, which were frequently decorated with battle scenes in the second century AD.

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The impulse to virtuosity, to elaborate and refine and outdo earlier work, might explain the slightly surreal “Battle of the Nudes,” by Pollaiuolo, an engraving that was influential throughout Europe.

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But when he compares it to the Renaissance sculpture of Pollaiuolo, he finds it lacking: “as our eye glides on without the stimulus of sharply contrasting planes we begin to lose interest.”

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But back down on 2, he’s offering a dreamboat of a video called “The Beautiful One Has Come,” by Dave McKenzie; a suite of tiny collage-poems by Susan Howe; Elijah Burgher’s colored pencil drawing of three nude males, posed in front of Antonio del Pollaiuolo’s 15th-century treatment of the same theme; and a handful of pocket-size notebooks with cartoonlike watercolors by the Conceptualist Allan Sekula.

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The poem then considers similar scenes depicted by Michelangelo and Pollaiuolo, and the Christian iconography behind those works of art, before addressing the spiritual dimension of the war itself: But night begins,Night of the mind: who nowadays is conscious of our sins?Though every human deed concerns our blood,And even we must know, what nobody has understood,That some great love is over all we do,And that is what has driven us to this fury … "Soldiers Bathing" stands comparison with the best of Keith Douglas's poems.

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