Piero Pollaiuolo (c.1441-1496), also known as Piero Benci, was an Italian painter during the Renaissance. His brother was the artist Antonio Pollaiuolo 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.
Piero Pollaiuolo's work includes:
Altarpiece of the SS. Vincent, James and Eustace (http://musa.uffizi.firenze.it/Dipinti/polltresantiE9.html) (1468) - tempera on wood - LINK IS BROKEN
Portrait of a woman (http://www.museopoldipezzoli.it/PP_inglese/museo/collezioni/pittura/rinascimento.html) (c.1470)
Portrait of Galeazzo Maria Sforza (http://musa.uffizi.firenze.it/Dipinti/pollsforzaE9.html) (c.1471) - tempera on wood - LINK IS BROKEN
Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG292) (completed 1475) - oil on wood
Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Pollaiuolo in his Lives of the Artists.
Antonio di Jacopo Pollaiuolo (January 17, 1432/1433 – February 4, 1498, Rome), also known as Antonio del Pollaiolo or Antonio Pollaiolo, was an Italian painter, sculptor and goldsmith during the Renaissance, who also did valuable service in perfecting the art of enamelling.
His brother was the artist PieroPollaiuolo and the two frequently worked together.
Some of Pollaiuolo's painting exhibits an excess of brutality, of which the characteristics can be studied in the Saint Sebastian, painted in 1473-1475 for the Pucci Chapel of the SS.
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