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Andrea del Verrocchio (,
[1][2] also ,
[3] Italian: [anˈdrɛːa del verˈrɔkkjo];
c. 1435 – 1488), born
Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, was an
Italian painter,
sculptor, and
goldsmith who was a master of an important workshop in
Florence. He apparently became known as
Verrocchio after the surname of his master, a goldsmith. Few paintings are attributed to him with certainty, but a number of important painters were trained at his workshop. His pupils included
Leonardo da Vinci,
Pietro Perugino and
Lorenzo di Credi. His greatest importance was as a sculptor and his last work, the
Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni in
Venice, is generally accepted as a
masterpiece.
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He taught Leonardo da Vinci and was an immense influence on artists from Cellini to Michelangelo, yet his own work was long dismissed as unrefined and minor league. Now attention is finally being paid to Andrea del Verrocchio, who was at one time the most sought-after sculptor in Italy. Ingrid Rowland reviews two exhibitions of an artist who “epitomizes what the Renaissance of art in Florence was all about.”
Andrea del Verrocchio’s statues may lack the silken sheen of Benvenuto Cellini’s metalwork and the epic grandeur of Michelangelo’s marbles, the works that shaped artistic taste in Vasari’s time. But their achievements depended absolutely on the legacy of this man of many talents: his skill a...
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