Name: AFTER ANDREA DEL VERROCHIO (ITALIAN, 1435-1488)
Brand: Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni
Price: 4000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

AFTER ANDREA DEL VERROCHIO (ITALIAN, 1435-1488)
Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni

on a verde antico marble base with plaque inscribed 'BARTY COLLÉONE/ GENERAL DE LA REPUBLIQUE/ DE VENISE XV SIECLE/ PAR VERACHIO'
bronze, patinated
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 20¹⁄₂ in. (52 cm.) wide; 11 in. (28 cm.) deep, overall
24³⁄₄ in. (63 cm.) high, the bronze
Conceived 1481.
This model French school, circa 1890.

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In his will, the condottiere, Bartolomeo Colleoni (d. 1475), bequeathed to the Venetian republic, whose troops he had commanded, part of his personal fortune, stipulating that a bronze equestrian statue should be erected in his memory in the Piazza San Marco. The commission for the work was awarded to Verrocchio. However, the monument remained unfinished at the time of the latter's death in 1488 and the task of its completion was given to Lorenzo di Credi. He in turn passed this responsibility to the bronze caster, Alessandro Leopardi, and it is his signature that is inscribed on the base of the statue, which was finally erected, contrary to the wishes of its benefactor, on the Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, in 1496.