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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M377
People
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
print
Date
c. 1470-c. 1475
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
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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

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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