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TitleBattle of the Nudes

Creator namePollaiuolo, Antonio

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation datec. 1470-1480

Object typePrint

MaterialsEngraving

Dimensions16 3/4 x 24 in. (42.4 x 60.9 cm)

LocationCleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1967.127

Accession number1967.127

SubjectsBattles in artViolence in artNude in artPrints, Renaissance

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1. Andrea Mantegna

Evelyn Lincoln

The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker

~~Originally Giorgio Vasari attributed the invention of copperplate...

Author

Evelyn Lincoln

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.17-43

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00148.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16733&redirecttoanchor=7635

Chapter subject tags:Prints, RenaissanceChristian art and symbolism--Renaissance, 1450-1600Prints--TechniqueMantegna, Andrea, 1431-1506

5. The Eye of the Beholder

Patricia Lee Rubin

Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence

In Canto X of Purgatory, Dante and Virgil climb onto the first terrace of Purgatory, a sheer face of white marble “adorned with such carvings that not only Polycleitus but Nature herself would there be put to shame.” The carvings display three supreme examples of humility to Dante’s admiring gaze: the Virgin accepting the angel’s message of the incarnation, David dancing before the Ark of the Covenant, and the emperor Trajan moved to take vengeance for the murder of a poor widow’s son. …

Author

Patricia Lee Rubin

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.135-173

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00066.008

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14415&redirecttoanchor=7635

Chapter subject tags:Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divine comedyPainting, Renaissance--ItalySculpture, Renaissance--ItalyLeonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519Drawing, Renaissance--ItalyBotticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510Giotto, 1266?-1337Battistero di San Giovanni (Florence, Italy)Ghiberti, Lorenzo, 1378-1455Cappella Brancacci (Santa Maria del Carmine (Church : Florence, Italy))Florence (Italy)--HistoryPainting, Renaissance--Italy--FlorenceSculpture, Renaissance--Italy--FlorenceDrawing, Renaissance--Italy--Florence

III. How Prints became Works of Art: The First Generation

David Landau, Peter Parshall

The Renaissance Print: 1470–1550

During the last quarter of the fifteenth century as the print began to claim some marginal prominence among the pictorial arts of Europe, printmakers gradually adopted the formal vocabulary of painters and sculptors. At the same time, they began to shed their anonymity as craftsmen. Although both woodcut and engraving aspired to the standards set by the ennobled arts, each printmaking technique did so by following its own path. On the one hand, the refinement of woodcut came about mainly through …

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David Landau, Peter Parshall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.33-102

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00154.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-13729&redirecttoanchor=7635

Chapter subject tags:Prints, RenaissanceEarly printed booksPrints--TechniqueWood-engraving, RenaissanceEngraving, RenaissancePrints--Collectors and collectingIllustrated books--History

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