Many major museums have a version of the print digitised and catalogued. It’s worth reading some of these short, but highly informative entries. A particularly useful catalogue note can be found on the Cleveland Museum website.  A separate conservation site dedicated to the Cleveland sheet is packed with useful information, and can be accessed by clicking here. In particular, the section titled “Engravings, impressions and states” is a helpful guide for the terminology used by print historians, and for how a print is examined and written about by art historians and conservators today.

For a brief introductory video on the work click here.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Landau, David and Peter Parshall. Renaissance Print, 1470 – 1550. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Chapter III, “The Development of a Tonal System,” pp. 73-74.  Digitised on SOLO.

Langdale, Shelley R. Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiuolo’s Renaissance Masterpiece. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003

Lincoln, Evelyn. The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker. New Haven: Yale University Press, 200: pp. 30 – 31. Digitised on SOLO.

Oldzewski, Edward J. “Bring on the Clones: Pollaiuolo’s Battle of Ten Nude Men.” Artibus et Historiae 30, no. 60 (2009): 9 – 38. Digitised on JSTOR.

FURTHER READING

Evans, Mark L. “Pollaiuolo, Dürer and the Master IAM van Zwolle.” Print Quarterly 3, no. 2 (1986): 109 – 116. Digitised on JSTOR.

Landau, David. “Review: Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiuolo’s Renaissance Masterpiece by Shelley R. Langdale.” Print Quarterly 20, no. 4 (2004): 408 – 412. Digitised on JSTOR.

Levenson, Jay A., Konrad Oberhuber, and Jacquelyn L. Sheehan, Early Italian engravings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington: The National Gallery, 1973. Cat. 13. Print.

Spangenberg, Kristin L. Six centuries of master prints: treasures from the Herbert Greer French collection. Cincinnati : Cincinnati Art Museum, 1993. Cat. 16. Print.