Antonio Pollaiuolo (1907) (14761894391)

Identifier: antoniopollaiuol00crut (find matches)
Title: Antonio Pollaiuolo
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Cruttwell, Maud
Subjects: Pollaiolo, Antonio, 1426?-1498 Pollaiolo, Piero, ca. 1443-1496
Publisher: London : Duckworth and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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head twistedaway from her legs. She works out a problem with hercompasses from a book open before her.f On the benchis carved an apparently irrelevant scene—a sea-godbearing off a naked nymph on his back—which recallsthe paintings of the Hercules series. Music is seated at a small organ which is decoratedwith the Rovere stemma. A winged putto blows thebellows. She is very animated and the flutteringribbons add to the impression of restlessness.^ * The motto of Theology: In principio creavit Deus coelum etterrain, terra antem erat inanis et vacua, et tenebroe erant super-faciem abyssi. In principio erat verbum et verbum erat apudDeum et Deus erat verbum. t Dato angulo dato circulo equum angulum capientem portionemabscindere. A dato puncto ad datum circulum liniam contingentedescendere, Corporum isoperimetrorum capacissimum est sphoe-rium. Corpus est quod habet longitudinem, latitudinem et profun-ditatem. f The motto of Music: Varia Musicorum, Instrumentorum generaexculpta habebat.
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d ^ C/3 H O PQ O fa THE TOMBS OF THE POPES 197 By her side, is Perspective (Plate XLV.), one of themost beautiful figures of the series. It has the interestof being the first time Perspective had been included inartistic representation among the Arts and Sciences.She holds in one hand an astrolabe, and bears over her armthe Rovere stemma^ as being under the special protectionof the Pope. This honour is accorded only to three ofthe figures, the other two being Rhetoric and Dialectics,doubtless in tribute to his powers of oratory. To thesethree Antonio seems to have given extra care for theyare the most beautiful in attitude and in form.Perspective is more classic and simple in pose andgesture than the other figures, and the outstretched legand foot are of a beauty remarkable even among theseexquisitely modelled limbs.* Arithmetic on the other side of the Tomb has on herface the expression, wonderfully well presented, of onewho calculates. She bends over her tablets, absorbed in * Her m