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Andrea del Verrocchio

1435-1488 Italy/Early Renaissance

 

Brief Biography-Andrea del Verrocchio was a highly regarded sculptor and painter from Florence. He began training as a goldsmith under Giuliano Verrocchio, after whom he named himself. He studied sculpture under Antonio Rossellino and was tutored in painting under Fra Filippo Lippi alongside Sandro Botticelli. His patron in the arts was Piero de’ Medici, who took him on when Donatello, Florence’s top sculptor, died. Verrocchio spent his life in Florence except for his last few years in Venice.
He mainly concentrated on sculptures during the last decade of his life. Speculation has it that he gave up painting altogether on realising the genius of his pupil Leonardo da Vinci. However, that story may have only slight truth as doing sculpture was his foremost passion. Also, the biographer Giorgio Vasari was sometimes known to exaggerate. Some of his many renowned students were Domenico Ghirlandaio, Lorenzo di Credi and Pietro Perugino, and Leonardo da Vinci.

 

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madonna
and child

madonna and child

madonna and child
resting on a parapet

madonna and child resting on a parapet

madonna with saints
john and donatus

madonna with saints john the baptist and donatus


saint jerome

saint jerome


saint monica

saint monica

the adoration with
two angels

the adoration with two angels

the baptism of christ
Head by leonardo

the baptism of christ head by leonardo da vinci

the baptism
of christ

the baptism of christ

the battle
of pydna

the battle of pydna

tobias and
the angel

tobias and the angel

a young
woman

a young woman

christ and doubting
thomas

christ and doubting thomas


colleoni head

colleoni head

equestrian statue
of colleoni

equestrian statue of colleoni

monument to bishop
forteguerri

monument to bishop forteguerri

putto
with dolphin

putto with dolphin

the
young david

the young david