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Title: Verocchio
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cruttwell, Maud
Subjects: Verrocchio, Andrea del, 1435?-1488
Publisher: London : Duckworth New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of S. Giovanni executed in the previouscentury. The popularity of the work caused Verrocchios Baptism to serve as the model in all later representations of the theme. We find it repeated almost exactly by Credi for the monks of S. Domenico a Fiesole, and by the Robbias in each of their hexagonal fonts. Besides the reminiscence of Baldovinetti the painting shows to a striking degree the influence of Antonio Pollaiuolo, an influence which hardly survives in thework of his middle period, and is not at all perceptible in his later productions. Though in general lines andattitude the figures of Christ and the Baptist follow those of Baldovinetti, in structure and feature they resemble the athletes of Pollaiuolo. The brawny build, the knotted joints, the tense muscle, the bent legs, the faces with theirstrongly accentuated bone, harsh features, and sparse beards reproduce exactly the Pollaiuolesque type. The r vox DO/AiNirrorivitsvperaqvas- ps-xxvni c ,ESCEDI77LAVI7 SEPTIES lillORDANE-llK^V- C -; \
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