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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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study for the figure ofthe Virgin, and like all his black and white work ismore satisfactory than his finished painting. Thedrawing, however, is an example of the weak, irresolutelines and soft blurred technique characteristic of his style,and which contrast so strongly with the energy anddecision of Verrocchios work. The Pistoia Altar-piece was repeated by Credi in allits details (the Saints only being changed to suit thededication), in the painting now in the Naples Museum—the Madonna with SS. Leonardo and Girolamo, officiallyascribed to Ghirlandaio. The Virgin and Child are, withthe exception of a few details of the draperies exactlysimilar, as are also the throne, balustrade and other 176 VERROCCHIO accessories, but Credi has been unable to imitate in the twoSaints the strength and concentration of Verrocchios work.In these the strenuous earnestness of the original iscompletely lacking, the S. Leonardo being a trivial doll-like figure, and the S. Girolamo merely hysterical. XLI
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Anderson, Rome THE COLLEONI STATUE. VENICE Face p. 177 CHAPTER XIV THE COLLEONI STATUE It is rare in the history of art that the last work of amaster is his greatest, and it is some compensation forVerrocchio,s early death that he was spared the declineand decay of faculty inseparable from old age. Hisdevelopment, as far as we are able to judge in the dearthof certain dates, was steady and sure from youth to middle-age, a continuous widening of vision, increase of energy,emancipation from restrictions of brain and hand. As faras the Bronze Group of Or S. Michele, the progress hasbeen gradual, and we are able to trace it step by step innatural sequence. But between this work and Verrocchio\ssupreme achievement—the Colleoni Statue—so vast a strideis made as to be unaccountable in the ordinary course ofhuman development. Some extraordinary stimulus hadbeen received, and this stimulus can be attributed to noother cause than contact with the genius of Leonardo. It is not too much to sa

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