M377: The Battle of the Nudes
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M377
- People
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Antonio Pollaiuolo, Italian (Florence, Italy 1431 or 1432 - 1498 Rome, Italy)
- Title
- The Battle of the Nudes
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Battle of the Naked Men
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1490
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/262626
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 40 x 57.9 cm (15 3/4 x 22 13/16 in.)
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- iia/iib
- Standard Reference Number
- H. DI, 1
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Francis Bullard in memory of his uncle Charles Eliot Norton
- Accession Year
- 1913
- Object Number
- M377
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Laura Howland Dudley, The Fogg Museum of Harvard University: Early Italian Prints in the Fogg Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin (Boston, August 1913), Vol. 11, No. 64, pp. 39-41, repr. p. 39
- Louise S. Richards, "Antonio Pollaiuolo 'Battle of Naked Men' ", The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH, March 1968), vol. LV, no. 3, pp. 63-70
- Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 319, p. 273, repr.
- Shelley Langdale, Battle of the Nudes. Pollaiuolo's Renaissance Masterpiece, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH, 2002), entire book; cat. entry on p. 72
- David Landau, "Pollaiuolo's 'Battle of the Nudes'", Print Quarterly (December 2003), vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 408-412, fig. 187, pp. 408-412, fig. 187
- Francesca Bewer, A Laboratory for Art: Harvard's Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900-1950, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA, 2010), p. 242-243, fig. 5.13
- Stephen J. Campbell, Andrea Mantegna: Humanist Aesthetics, Faith, and the Force of Images, Harvey Miller Publishers (London, 2020), pp. 225-229 [related bibliography, not Harvard impression]
Exhibition History
- A Century of Progress Art Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 06/01/1933 - 11/01/1933
- HAA 1 Survey Course: Landmarks of World Art and Architecture [Spring 2007], Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/26/2007 - 04/08/2007
- HAA 1 Survey Course (S421): Landmarks of World Art and Architecture [Spring 2009], Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/2009 - 05/10/2009
- HAA 1 Survey Course (S421): Landmarks of World Art and Architecture (Spring 2010), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/05/2010 - 05/09/2010
- 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/01/2016 - 01/31/2017
- 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/23/2018 - 05/06/2018
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