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Antonio del Pollaiuolo

Battle of the Nudes, 1470/1475

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Medium

engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 42.8 x 61.8 cm (16 7/8 x 24 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 1, p.191, no. 1

Accession Number

1941.1.16

Artists / Makers

Antonio del Pollaiuolo (artist) Italian, c. 1431 - 1498

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Exhibition History

1973: Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 70.

1983: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

2018: The Renaissance Nude, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, London, 2018-2019 (shown only in Los Angeles).

Bibliography

1938: Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

1973: Levenson et al. 1973, no.13 (a).

2002: Langdale, Shelley. Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiuolo's Renaissance Masterpiece. Exh.cat. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2002, no. 8

2017: Simons, Patricia. "Mantegna's Battle of the Sea Gods: The material and thematic interaction between print and sculpture." InPrints in Translation, 1450-1750: Image, Materiality, Space, edited by Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Edward H. Wouk. Oxon and New York, 2017: 89-113, fig. 6.2.

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