Alison Wright
The Pollaiuolo Brothers: The Arts of Florence and Rome
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2004.
352 pp.; 50 color ills.; 170 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(0300106254)
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In her exemplary book, which began as a doctoral dissertation in 1992, Alison Wright provides a comprehensive examination of the Pollaiuolo brothers’ substantial artistic productivity in Florence and Rome during the second half of the quattrocento, contextualizing their working lives and era. Although she adopts a traditional monographic approach to her subject, the author seeks to reveal the professional reputations of these artists and the innovative characteristics of their works of art. Wright implements a...