Judith

ca. 1470

Pollaiuolo Italian, 1429 - 1498

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Pollaiuolo created in this figure an expressive Image of the beautiful biblical heroine and symbol of the Florentine republic. Working in both Florence and Rome, Pollaiuolo produced paintings, engravings, drawings, embroidery designs, and works in silver and is known especially for his development of the bronze statuette.

Title Judith

Artwork Date ca. 1470

Artist Pollaiuolo

Life Dates 1429 - 1498

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

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Medium Bronze with traces of gilding

Dimensions Sculpture without base 17 x 8 1/8 x 3 1/2 inches (H x W x D) Including base: 21 1/8 × 8 1/8 × 4 9/16 inches (H x W x D)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Eleanor Clay Ford

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 37.147

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Provenance

Sir William Richard Drake [1817–1890] (Weybridge Surrey, England);
by descent to Mrs. E.K. Hornsby-Drake (London, England);
private collection (Paris, France);
Dr. Frey von Stamore;
(Arnold Seligmann, Rey, & Co.) (New York, New York, USA);
Eleanor Clay Ford [1896–1976] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Exh. cat., Burlington Fine Arts Club. London, 1879, no. 415. [as Pollaiuolo]

Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1938, no. 52 (ill.) [unpaginated].

Middledorf, U. "Die Ausstellung italienischer Renaissanceskulptur in Detroit." Pantheon 22, p. 336.

Ragghianti, C. "La Mostra di scultura italianna antica a Detroit." Critica d'Arte 3 (August-December 1938): p. 180.

Valentiner, W.R. "Late Gothic Sculpture in Detroit." Art Quarterly 6, no. 4 (Autumn 1943): pp. 276-305.

Valentiner, W.R. "A Pollaiuolo for Detroit." The Art News, Nov. 6, 1937, p. 9.

Sabatini, A. Antonio e Piero Pollaiuolo. Florence, 1944, p. 99.

Ortolani, S. Il Pollaiulol. Milan, 1948, pp. 165, 225.

Steingraber, E. "Studien zur florentiner Goldschmiedekunst I'." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorishen Institutes in Florenz 7 (August 1955): p. 97, no. 17.

Richardson, W.P. "Bertoldo and Verrocchio: Two Fifteenth Century Florentine Bronzes." Art Quarterly 22, no. 3 (Autumn 1959): pp. 205-215.

Greenleaf, William. From These Beginnings: The Early Philanthropies of Henry and Edsel Ford, 1911–1936. Detroit, 1964, p. 163.

The Italian Heritage. Sales cat., Wildenstein & Co, Inc. New York,1967, no. 18 (ill.).

Busignani, A. Pollaiuolo. Florence, 1969, p. 108.

Seymour, C. Jr. The Sculpture of Verrocchio. London, 1971, p. 126.

Ettlinger, L.D. Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo. 1978, no. 65. [as 19th century replica]

"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press, May 20, 1979, p. 25 (ill.).

"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit News/Detroit Free Press, April 18, 1982, p. 11 (ill.).

Italian Renaissance Sculpture in the Time of Donatello. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and Kimbell Art Museum. Detroit and Fort Worth, 1985, pp. 199-201, p. 70 (pl. 23).

Avery, C. "Donatello Celebrations: A major exhibition at Detroit, Fort Worth and Florence." Apollo 123, no. 287 (January 1986): p. 18 (fig. 4).

Butterfield, A. and D. Franklin. "A Documented episode in the history of Renaissance 'terracruda' sculpture." The Burlington Magazine CXL (December 1998): p. 820 (fig. 47).

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, 2002, I, cat. 57.

Crum, Roger J. Judith between the Private and Public Realms in Renaissance Florence. Cambridge, 2010, pp. 294, 297.

Principi, Lorenzo. The Master of the Unruly Children: River God and Bacchus. London, 2016, p. 16.

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