id: 143142 accession number: 1967.127 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.127 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:18.662000 Battle of the Nudes, 1470s–80s. Antonio del Pollaiuolo (Italian, 1431/32–1498). Engraving; sheet: 42.4 x 60.9 cm (16 11/16 x 24 in.); platemark: 42 x 60.4 cm (16 9/16 x 23 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1967.127 title: Battle of the Nudes title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1470s–80s creation date earliest: 1470 creation date latest: 1489 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 15th century technique: engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Engraving type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Hind I,191,D.I.1 ; Bartsch XIII.202.2 --- CREATORS * Antonio del Pollaiuolo (Italian, 1431/32–1498) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 42.4 x 60.9 cm (16 11/16 x 24 in.); Platemark: 42 x 60.4 cm (16 9/16 x 23 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Italian Prints and Drawings opening date: 1968-01-30T05:00:00 Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968). title: Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary opening date: 1971-02-19T05:00:00 Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 28, 1971). title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage opening date: 1971-07-13T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). title: Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions opening date: 1980-10-21T04:00:00 Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: CASVA (Curatorial/Conservation Colloquy in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts) opening date: 2000-06-19T00:00:00 CASVA (Curatorial/Conservation Colloquy in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts). National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (June 19-21, 2000). title: Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiuolo's Renaissance Masterpiece opening date: 2002-08-25T00:00:00 Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiuolo's Renaissance Masterpiece. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 25-October 27, 2002). title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00 Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). title: Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art opening date: 2017-08-26T04:00:00 Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-December 31, 2017). title: Botticelli: The Drawings opening date: 2023-11-18T05:00:00 Botticelli: The Drawings. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (November 18, 2023-February 11, 2024) https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/botticelli-drawings. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Langdale, Shelley R., and Antonio Pollaiolo. Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiuolo's Renaissance Masterpiece. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2002. page number: exh. cat. number 1, p. 2 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41826494?seq=1 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 79 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n101/ The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 91 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n109/ Driscoll, Ann. "The Pig Painter: Parties, Poets, and Pollaiuolo." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 3 (1993): 83-111. page number: Reproduced: p. 99; Mentioned: p. 97-111 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161392 May, Sally Ruth. Knockouts: a pocket guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: no. 115, p. 102 - 103 url: Langdale, Shelley R., "Mastering the Human Form", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 42 no. 06, Summer 2002 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6-7 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2002-06/page/n5 Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 347-348 url: Berti, Luciano, Federica Chezzi, Antonio Natali, and Mario Sperenzi. Botticelli: approccio nel nuovo millennio. Firenze: Centro Di, 2015. page number: Mentioned; p. 62; Reproduced: p. 64 url: Olszewski, Edward J. "Michelangelo's David: Full Frontal Nudity in the Age of Savonarola." Source: Notes in the History of Art. v. 35 no. 1/2 (2015/2016): 118-125 page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 120-121 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 16 url: Schulz, Anne Markham. The History of Venetian Renaissance Sculpture, Ca. 1400-1530. London : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2017. page number: Mentioned p. 162; Reproduced fig. 53 url: Nethersole, Scott. Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence.
New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2018 page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 20, 34, 116-117, 176-182, 179. figs. 6, 79,144,147 url: Rubin, Patricia Lee. Seen from Behind: Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 40-41, 122-123, 213, pl. 1.41, 4.14, 6.33 url: Heisterberg, Marion. Zwischen exemplum und opus absolutum: Studien zum Abzeichnen im italienischen Tre- und Quattrocento zwischen Mustertransfer und Kopie. 2020. page number: Reproduced and mentioned; pp. 421-422, fig. 265 url: Raphael, and Francesco Federico Mancini. Fortuna e mito di Raffaello in Umbria. 2021. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 146-148, fig. 5 url: Olszewski, Edward J. The Agency of Female Typology in Italian Renaissance Paintings. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023. page number: Mentioned: p. 87; reproduced: p. 89, fig. 4.4. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.127/1967.127_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.127/1967.127_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.127/1967.127_full.tif