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Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3

CHAPTER III
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Criticised in detail, each separate figure may be faulty.

The composition, as a whole, is picturesque and grandiose.

The same can scarcely be said about the tomb of Innocent VIII., erected by Antonio and his brother Piero del Pollajuolo.
While it perpetuates the memory of an uninteresting Pontiff, it has but little, as a work of art, to recommend it.

The Pollajuoli were not great sculptors.

In the history of Italian art they deserve a place, because of the vivid personality impressed upon some portions of their work.


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