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Antonio di Jacopo Pollaiuolo (c. 1432 –
1498) was an Italian people|Italian painter,
sculptor and goldsmith during the Renaissance, and
did valuable service in perfecting the art of
enamelling.

His brother was the artist Piero Pollaiuolo and
the two frequently worked together. Their work
shows both classicism|classical influences and an
interest in human anatomy; reportedly, the
brothers carried out dissections to improve their
knowledge of the subject. 

Pollaiuolo's painting exhibits an excess of
brutality, of which the characteristics can be
studied in the Saint Sebastian, painted in 1475,
and now in the National Gallery, London. A St
Christopher and the Infant Christ is in the
Metropolitan Museum, New York.

But it was as a sculptor and metal-worker that he
achieved his greatest successes. The exact
ascription of his works is doubtful, as his
brother Piero did much in collaboration with him.
The museum of Florence contains the bronze group
"Hercules strangling Cacus" and the terracotta
bust "The Young Warrior"; and in the South
Kensington Museum, London, is a bas-relief
representing a contest between naked men.

In 1489 Antonio took up his residence in Rome,
where he executed the tomb of Pope Sixtus IV
(1493), a composition in which he again manifested
the quality of exaggeration in the anatomical
features of the figures. In 1496 he went to
Florence in order to put the finishing touches to
the work already begun in the sacristy of Santo
Spirito.

He died having just finished his mausoleum of Pope
Innocent VIII, and was buried in the church of San
Pietro in Vincoli, where a monument was raised to
him near that of his brother.

Pollaiuolo's students included Sandro Botticelli.

==Works==
*
http://www.dia.org/collections/euroart/renaissance
/37.147.html Judith (c.1455-70)  - bronze
*
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/anat/ho_17.50.99.
htm Battle of Naked Men (1465) - engraving
*
http://musa.uffizi.firenze.it/Dipinti/polltresanti
E9.html Altarpiece of the SS. Vincent, James and
Eustace (1468) - tempera on wood
*
http://www.louvre.fr/anglais/collec/ag/inv6813/ag_
f.htm Nude Warriors in Combat (c. 1470-1475) -
engraving
*
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjec
ts.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=
NG928 Apollo and Daphne (c.1470/80) - oil on wood
*
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjec
ts.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=
NG292 Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (completed
1475) - oil on wood
*
http://musa.uffizi.firenze.it/Dipinti/pollercanteo
E9.html Hercules and Antaeus (c.1475) - tempera on
wood
*
http://musa.uffizi.firenze.it/Dipinti/pollercidrE9
.html Hercules and the Hydra (c.1475) - tempera on
wood
* http://www.frick.org/html/spolla1.htm Hercules
(no date) - bronze

==References==
* 1911
* Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of
Pollaiuolo in his Lives of the Artists.