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His work, however, proves so incontestably the training of Pollaiuolo, and shows so close an acquaintance with Florentine works of art, that we may safely presume the greater part of his youth, after leaving the studio of Pier dei Franceschi, to have been passed in Florence as pupil or assistant of Antonio.
In the nude figure of this boy he portrayed the painter Francesco Granacci, then a youth; and he also made portraits of the Chevalier, Messer Tommaso Soderini, Piero Guicciardini, father of Messer Francesco the historian, Piero del Pugliese, and the poet Luigi Pulci; likewise Antonio Pollaiuolo, and himself as a youth, as he then was, which he never did again throughout the whole of his life, so that it has not been possible to find a portrait of him at a more mature age.
Among the goldsmiths were Orcagna, Ghiberti, Ghirlandajo, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Francia, Verrocchio, Andrea del Sarto.
In addition to Fra Angelico's great crucifixion fresco in the chapter house, is a single Christ crucified, with a monk mourning, by Antonio Pollaiuolo, very like the Fra Angelico in the cloisters; but the colour has left it, and what must have been some noble cypresses are now ghosts dimly visible. The frame is superb. One other painting we must see the "Last Supper" of Domenico Ghirlandaio.
The influence of Pollaiuolo can be observed in the sculptures on the gradino of the throne, little nude figures in violent action. In better preservation is the "Annunciation," in the Cathedral, signed, and with the same date as the foregoing.
Plastic art Blood-soaked stones The faithful artists Michelangelo Italian custodians The famous Davids Michelangelo's tondo Brutus Benedetto da Rovezzano Donatello's life-work The S. George Verrocchio Ghiberti and Brunelleschi and the Baptistery doors Benvenuto Cellini John of Bologna Antonio Pollaiuolo Verrocchio again Mino da Fiesole The Florentine wealth of sculpture Beautiful ladies The della Robbias South Kensington and the Louvre.
In the generations which supervene, artists with less fervor of spirit but with growing skill of hand, increased with each inheritance, turn their efforts to the development of their means. The names of this period of experiment and research are Masaccio, Uccello, Pollaiuolo, Verrocchio. At length, when the fullness of time is come, emerges the master-mind, of original insight and creative power.
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