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Andrea del Verrocchio
1435-1488 Italy/Early Renaissance
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Brief Biography-Andrea del Verrocchio was a highly regarded sculptor and painter from Florence. He began training as a goldsmith under Giuliano Verrocchio, whom he named himself after. 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 d’ 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.
Amongst his many students were Domenico Ghirlandaio, Lorenzo di Credi, Pietro Perugino and Leonardo da Vinci. He mainly concentrated on doing sculpture during the last decade of his life. Speculation has it that on realizing the genius of his pupil Leonardo da Vinci he gave up painting altogether. 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. |
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madonna
and child

madonna and child
resting on a parapet

madonna with saints
john and donatus

saint jerome
saint monica
the adoration with
two angels

the baptism of christ
Head by leonardo

the baptism
of christ

the battle
of pydna

tobias and
the angel

a young
woman

christ and doubting
thomas

colleoni head
equestrian statue
of colleoni

monument to bishop
forteguerri

putto
with dolphin

the
young david
