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ANDREA DEL VERROCCHIO
Nicolas de Larmessin, Public
domain, via
Wikimedia Commons.
1682 |
- Andrea del Verrocchio (1435 –
7 October 1488) was an Italian sculptor, painter and goldsmith who was a master of an important workshop in Florence.
- He was considered the greatest bronzemaster of his time.
- He worked alongside Sandro Botticello and Filippo Lippi in the latter part of the 15th century
and was under the patronage of the famous Medici family.
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Knights of Templar initiate.
- Leonardo DaVinci was one of his students and they worked on
several paintings together including Baptism of Christ
and Tobias and the Angel.
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Half-length portrait of Andrea del Verrocchio, Italian painter and sculptor, engraved on a copperplate by Nicolas de Larmessin and printed in a book "Académie des Sciences et des Arts" written by Isaac Bullart and published in Amsterdam by Elzevier in 1682.
(Wikipedia)
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