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Piero del Pollaiolo, Profile Portrait of a Woman, 1490s, oil on wood, 48 x 30.5 cm, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

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Piero del Pollaiolo, Italian, 1443-1496

   
   

Famous for their new treatment of heroic, antique subjects and the depiction of the male nude in action, Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo ran one of the most successful and advanced workshops in fifteenth-century Florence. Andrea and Piero Pollaiuolo had a workshop in Florence patronized by Medici. In the Florentine workshop of Pollaiuolo brothers were made some of the most distinguished female portraits in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.

 
Piero del Pollaiolo, Profile Portrait of a Woman, 1490s, oil on wood, 48 x 30.5 cm, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
   
   

 

 
 
Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra
Piero del Pollaiolo (1443-1496 Italian)
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Altarpiece with Three Saints
1467-68
Tempera on wood, 172 x 179 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

     
Some of the most distinguished female portraits produced in Florence in the third quarter of the fifteenth century seem to have originated in the workshop of Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo. The present portrait is ascribed to Piero del Pollaiuolo on the strength of its similarity to six panels of Virtues painted for the Mercanzia. The paint surface is much damaged, and the background, the dress, and the surrounding frame have been extensively restored.
Stylistically this painting closely resembles three other profile portraits attributed to the Pollaiuoli (Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin; Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).

According to Ref. Knoedler 1940, there was at that time an old exhibition label on the back of the panel, which read: "No. 70. A female head, most beautifully drawn, said to be the portrait of Beatrice, the mistress of Dante, and under that description formed a point of attraction in a distinguished exhibition in Paris."

A photograph of this work as it appeared in 1928 has an attribution to Domencio Veneziano written on the back [see archive file].

 

 

 
 
Coronation of the Virgin
Piero del Pollaiuolo
1483
Tempera on panel
San Gimignano, Church of Sant'Agostino
   
 
   
     




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