Andrea del Verrocchio
Italian·1435–1488
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Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435-1488) was a Florentine sculptor, painter, and goldsmith who ran one of the most important workshops in Renaissance Italy. Born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, he took the name of his master, a goldsmith named Giuliano Verrocchi. His workshop trained Leonardo da Vinci, Perugino, Lorenzo di Credi, and possibly Botticelli.
Verrocchio's equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni in Venice is considered one of the greatest bronze monuments of the Renaissance, rivaling Donatello's Gattamelata. His bronze David (c. 1473-75) depicts a slender, confident youth thought to be modeled on the young Leonardo. He died in Venice while completing the Colleoni monument.
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About Andrea del Verrocchio
Yes. Leonardo apprenticed in Verrocchio's Florence workshop around 1466-1476. Legend holds that when Leonardo painted an angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ that surpassed the master's own figures, Verrocchio put down his brush forever.
The equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni (c. 1480-88) in Venice's Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo. It's considered one of the finest Renaissance bronze monuments, rivaling Donatello's earlier Gattamelata in Padua.
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