Piero del Pollaiolo also known as Piero Benci, was an Italian

Italy

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 Renaissance

Renaissance

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 painter from Florence

Florence

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

He died in Rome in 1496.

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...

 includes a biography of Pollaiolo in his Lives of the Artists.

Works

• Three Saints (1467-68) - altar-piece
• Portrait of a woman (c.1470)
• Portrait of Galeazzo Maria Sforza (c.1471) - tempera on wood
• Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
  Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (Piero del Pollaiolo)
  The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian is a work by Piero del Pollaiolo, commissioned by the Florentine Pucci family and now in the National Gallery, London.-History:...
  
  (completed 1475) - oil on wood
• Coronation of the Virgin (1483) - altar-piece painted in the choir of the cathedral at San Gimignano
  Sant'Agostino di San Gimignano
  The chiesa di Sant'Agostino is the second largest church in San Gimignano, Italy, after the Collegiata. It is owned by the Order of Saint Augustine.Sant'Agostino is an imposing 13th century building...
  
  
• 7 Virtues (6 painted by Pollaiolo):

  Charity

  Faith

  Temperance

  Prudence

  Hope

  Justice

External links

• Biography on the Web Gallery of Art
• Extensve biography of Antonio and Piero del Pollaiolo
• Piero del Pollaiolo at Panopticon Virtual Art Gallery