Antonio del Pollaiolo

Antonio del Pollaiolo

Antonio del Pollaiuolo (UK: POL-eye-WOH-loh, US: POHL-, Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo del pollaˈjwɔːlo]; 17 January 1429/1433 – 4 February 1498), also known as Antonio di Jacopo Pollaiuolo or Antonio Pollaiuolo (also spelled Pollaiolo), was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, engraver, and goldsmith, who made important works in all these media, as well as designing works in others, for example vestments, metal embroidery being a medium he worked in at the start of his career. His most characteristic works in his main media show largely naked male figures in complicated poses of violent action, drawing from classical examples and often centred on a heroic Hercules. He, or possibly his brother, was also a innovative painter of wide landscape backgrounds, perhaps having learnt from Early Netherlandish painting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonio del Pollaiolo has received more than 99,947 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Antonio del Pollaiolo is the 210th most popular painter (up from 217th in 2019), the 716th most popular biography from Italy (up from 754th in 2019) and the 57th most popular Italian Painter.

Antonio del Pollaiolo is most famous for his sculpture of Hercules and Cacus.