Word: pollajuolo
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Hypnotic God. One of Donatello's greatest successors was Antonio del Pollajuolo, whom Lorenzo de Medici called "the principal master" of Florence. His writhing Hercules and Antaeus, the only surviving statuette, positively known to be his, almost cries out in agony. Wild Man on Horseback, by Bertoldo di Giovanni, a pupil of Donatello, rides with savage majesty upon a steed of extraordinary elegance. Though less renowned, Alessandro Vittoria left in his 19½-in.-high Neptune a figure of hypnotic power. There is no doubt that this small god could quell a storm with his anger...
...Leyden, and Mariautonio Raimondi. The prints shown are remarkable not only for the great beauty of the impressions but also in some instances, for their extreme rarity. The Otto print, for example, is a unique impression, the Assumption of the Virgin is one of only four known impressions, and Pollajuolo's Gladiators, the only plate now believed to have been engraved by the artist, is one of but few impressions known to exist...
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