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Bartolomeo Colleoni

15th-century Italian mercenary and military officer of the Republic of Venice

Bartolomeo Colleoni (Italian pronunciation:[bartoloˈmɛːokolleˈoːni]; 1400 – 2 November 1475) was an Italiancondottiero, who became captain-general of the Republic of Venice. Colleoni "gained reputation as the foremost tactician and disciplinarian of the 15th century".^[1] He is also credited with having refurbished the Roman baths at Trescore Balneario.

Biography

Background

Colleoni was born in Solza near Bergamo, which was then part of the Duchy of Milan. In Bergamo Colleoni later built himself a mortuary chapel, the Cappella Colleoni. The Colleoni family was noble, but had been exiled with the rest of the Guelphs by the Visconti of Milan. Bartolomeo's father Paolo Colleoni had seized the castle of Trezzo, until he was assassinated by his cousins, probably acting on the orders of Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan.

Career

The young Colleoni trained as a soldier, first in the retinue of Filippo d'Arcello, the new

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Andrea del Verrocchio
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Christina Neilson
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DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0518

Adorno, Piero. Il Verrocchio: Nuove proposte nella civilità artistica del tempo di Lorenzo il Magnifico. Florence: Casa Editrice Edam, 1991.

Examines Verrocchio’s work as a sculptor, painter, and goldsmith, focusing especially on the political and cultural context in which his works were created.

Butterfield, Andrew. The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.

Overview of Verrocchio’s sculpture, organized chronologically, with cogent and convincing analyses of objects and documents. Emphasizes Verrocchio’s knowledge of Classical sources and his interest in psychology, preempting Leonardo’s work in this area. A brief discussion of Verrocchio’s activity as a painter, draftsman, and teacher is included at the end.

Cannon-Brookes, Peter. “Verrocchio Problems.” Apollo 99 (1974): 8–19.

Analyzes material evidence of important sculptures by Verroc

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Andrea del Verrocchio

Verrocchio was one of the leading artists of late 15th-century Florence. He is mainly celebrated as a sculptor, though a number of important painters trained in his studio, including Leonardo da Vinci. Some of Leonardo's artistic concerns, such as the twisting pose known as figura serpentinata, and the study of contrasting expressions, originate with Verrocchio.

Verrocchio trained as a goldsmith and went on to work as a sculptor and a painter. There is only one painting which is unanimously attributed to Verrocchio: the 'Baptism of Christ' in the Uffizi, Florence.

However, even in this famous work, Verrocchio seems to have used an assistant (for the dove, the palm tree and the rocks on the right). The picture was later substantially reworked and finished by his former pupil Leonardo da Vinci, responsible to the angel on the left and for re-envisaging much of the landscape and the body of Christ.

The Gallery has three works by Verrocchio and his workshop, one of which, The Virgin and Child with Two Angels, NG2508, appears to be entirely by his hand. Anothe