Portrait of Andrea del Verrocchio
from Vasari’s Vite
VERROCCHIO, Andrea del
The Baptism of Christ
1472-75
Oil on wood, 177 x 151 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
VERROCCHIO, Andrea del
The Baptism of Christ
(left angel and possibly the landscape by Leonardo da Vinci)
1472-75
Oil on wood, 177 x 151 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
VERROCCHIO, Andrea del
The Baptism of Christ
1472-75
Oil on wood, 177 x 151 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Verrocchio
Head of an Angel
Florence, Uffizi
Verrocchio
John the Baptist
Florence, Uffizi
Silver Altar,
1366; side panels added 1478-80
Originally Florence baptistry; now in Museo dell’Opera del Duomo
Bernardo Cenni - Annunciation,
Antonio Pollaiuolo - Birth of John Baptist
Silver panels added to the altar
1478-80
Originally Florence Baptistery
Florence, Museo dell' Opera del Duomo
Antonio di Salvi - Dance of Salome
Verrocchio - Beheading of the Baptist
VERROCCHIO
Beheading of St John the Baptist (detail of the altar)
1477-80
Silver
Baptistry, Florence
Beheading of St. John the Baptist,
Detail of executioner
Andrea del Verrocchio,
La Piagnona Bell,
bronze,
Museo di San Marco, Florence
VERROCCHIO, Andrea del
Christ and Doubting Thomas
c1476-83
Bronze, height: 230 cm
Orsanmichele, Florence
(replaced Donatello’s Louis of
Toulouse)
Donatello,
Gilded Bronze St. Louis of Tolouse, c1418-22
(now in Sta Croce)
Marble Niche of Orsanmichele, c1422
Pre-restoration
Post-restoration
Detail, St. Thomas
Detail of Christ
September 1468 - Verrocchio is given the commission for the palla
to sit atop the lantern of Florence Cathedral
The palla was set in place in May 1471.
"Keep in mind how the ball of Santa Maria Fiore was soldered together in sections."
"ricordati delle saldature co che si saldo la palla di sca maria del fiore."
"The triangular sections of the said ball were of copper shaped over a stone."
"di rame inprotato i sasso chome li dessa palla."
Leonardo da Vinci, MS G. 84b (Institut de France)
Inventory of commissions for the Medici for which Verrocchio was not paid; of 27 January 1495/6 by his brother Tommaso
(English translation by Seymour, 1966, p.172.; Italian from Seymour, 1971, p. 174.)
Dj Tommaso Verrochhij. + adj 27 dj gennaio 1495. Rede dj Lorenzo de medicj deon dare per questo lavoro fatto qui
appie cioc.
1.) A David with the head of Goliath.
Per uno davitte e la testa dj ghulia.................fj2.) A red nude [flayed Marsyas].
Per lo gnudo rosso.................fj3.) Small child of bronze with three heads of bronze and four lion's 'mouths' of marble.
Per banbino dj bronzo chon 3 teste dj bronzo e 4 bocche dj lione dj marmo.................fj4.) A fountain-figure of marble (for Medici villa at ).
Per una fighura dj marmo che gietta acqua.................fj5.) A storiated relief with several figures.
Per una storia dj rilievo chom piu fighure.................fj6.) Adornment [painting] of all the heads above the doorways of the courtyard [of the Medici] in Florence.
Per achonciatura dj tutte le teste chotalie che sono sopra a gli uscj del chortile in Firenze.................fj7.) [painting] portrait on panel of Lucrezia Donati.
Per uno quadro dj legname drentovj la fighura della testa della Luchrezia de Donatij.................fj8.) [painting] standard for Lorenzo's Tournament.
Per lo stendardo per la giostra dj Lorenzo.................fj9.) A figurine of a lady for [the crest of] a helmet [for Lorenzo de'Medici].
Per una dama dj rilievo ch'è posta in sul elmo.................fj10.) [painting] of a standard with a putto [spiritello] for the tournament of Giuliano.
Per dipintura duno stendardo ch I0 spiritello per la giostra dj Giuliano.................fj11.) [Marker] for the grave of Cosimo at the foot of the high altar of S. Lorenzo.
Per la sepoltura dj Chosimo appie del altare magiore in san Lorenzo.................fj12.) The tomb of Piero and Giovanni de'Medici.
Per la sepoltura dj Piero e Giovannj de Medici.................fj13.) Lettering cut into the [face of the] above tomb.
Per intagliatura dj 80 lettere intagliate in su el serpentino in due tondj in detta sepoltura.................fj14.) Twenty masks after nature.
Per ventj maschere rittatte al naturale.................fj15.) [Parade] armor [in part] for Duke Galeazzo [Visconti, of Milan].
Per lo adornamento e aparato del ducha Ghaleazo.................fj(document is a record of a nonextant original, and contains no monetary sums.
Biblioteca degli Uffizi Miscellanee Manoscritte P.I., No. 3.
Cruttwell, 1904, p. 243 (w/wrong archive reference, and ditto Passavant 1959); corrected Passavant 1969, p. 174.)
VERROCCHIO, Andrea del
The Young David
c1473-75
Bronze, height: 125 cm
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
Detail, Young David
Detail, St. Thomas
Detail, St. Thomas
Detail, Angel from
Donatello’s Cavalcanti Altar / Tabernacle of the Annunciation
Limestone with residual gilt and polychromy
Detail, Angel from Giovanni d’Ambrogio’s (?) Annunciation Group
c.1435
(originally for the Porta della Mandorla)
Sta. Croce, Florence Cavalcanti Altar
Detail, Young David
Detail, Donatello’s bronze David
c.1430s
Bargello, Florence
Detail, Head of Goliath from the Young David
Detail, Head of Goliath from the Young David
Detail, Head of Goliath
from Donatello’s Bronze David
Donatello,
Niccolo da Uzzano,
Pigmented terracotta,
c.1430s
Bargello, Florence
VERROCCHIO, Andrea del
Lorenzo de Medici
1480
Painted terracotta
National Gallery of Art, Washington
VERROCCHIO, Andrea del
Tomb of Piero and Giovanni de' Medici
1469-72
Marble, porphyry, serpentine,
bronze and pietra serena
San Lorenzo (in wall between
Old Sacristy and Chapel
of the Medici, Florence
VERROCCHIO, Andrea del
Equestrian Statue of Colleoni
1480s
Gilded bronze, height: 395 cm (without base)
Campo di Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
Donatello,
Equestrian Monument to Erasmo da Narni (“Gattamelata”)
Bronze, 1447-53
Piazza del Santo, Padua
Detail of Colleoni