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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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bust represents, according tothe catalogue, Piero, the eldest son of Lorenzo dei Medici,who was not born till 1471. As the face is that of ayouth of at least seventeen or eighteen years of age, and asVerrocchio died in 1488, those who claim it as his workmust place it in the very last year of his life—the year ofthe Colleoni. It is inconceivable that the hand whichmodelled that masterpiece of vigorous life and energyshould at the same date have executed this feeble work,which may possibly be by Antonio Pollaiuolo1s weakimitator, his brother Piero. Two other male busts in terra-cotta are with as littlereason attributed to Verrocchio—one in the Victoria andAlbert Museum, London, No. 4407 ; the other—evidentlya copy of this—in the Berlin Museum. They represent ayouth who bears much resemblance in feature to the Pagein Verrocchio^ Silver Relief, and the hair is arranged inhis peculiar manner, smooth and carefully parted, andfalling in luxuriant clusters. That in the South Ken- XXI
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Alinari, Florence BUST OF PIERO DI LORENZO DEI MEDICI (?) BY PIERO POLLAIUOLO (?) BARGELLO, FLORENCE Face p. 92 WORK FOR THE MEDICI 93 sington Museum is the better modelled and more im-portant of the two, but, in spite of the superficial resem-blance to Verrocchios work, neither can be accepted asmore than that of one of his disciples—possibly Lorenzodi Credi, with whose flaccid style they have much incommon. CHAPTER VII WORK FOR THE MEDICI—DEATH-MASKS, ETC. An entry in Tommasos Inventory, Per lo gnudo rosso,would have little meaning for us were it not for the recordof Vasari, by which we are able to connect it with therestoration of an antique statue of Marsyas in red marblewhich formerly decorated the garden of the Palazzo Medici.He tells us that Cosimo il Vecchio possessed a beautifulwhite marble statue of Marsvas tied to a tree, which wasplaced on one side of the door of the garden or cortilewhich gave on the Via de1 Ginori, and that Lorenzo,having received a still finer speci

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