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REGARDING A CANVAS ATTRIBUTED TO ANTONIO POLLAIUOLO.

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are flabby, soft, and Semitic with a weak and voluptuous mouth.
Pollaiuolo pays much attention to the hair. He was the draftsman, not the impressionist. His love for detail makes him forget, very often, the texture of the hair, occupying himself solely with the arrangement of the individual strands of hair curls so that they become almost calligraphic. In the Pluto and Proserpine the hair is painted with an entire concentration on texture rather than detail.
The childish hands and blue fingers of Proserpine could never have been drawn by Pollaiuolo. Observe the spider-like fingers of the left hand of Deianira, which is repeated again in the hands of David. There is always tension expressed in his hands, which ever tell the story.
Again the superior draftsmanship of Pollaiuolo is shown in his devotion to sharp, jerky folds in the cloak and tunic of St. Christopher and The Infant Christ. They perfectly clothe the body and follow its natural movement. While with the figure of Pluto the almost identical clothes are a useless appendage of heavy, unnatural and ludicrous folds that seem to have no relation to the figure. Then again compare the delicate and cobweb quality of the veil over the body of Deianira with the crude rendering of Proserpine's