Word: verrocchio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Previous Heil finds: a Verrocchio marble statue on a Manhattan art dealer's window sill (TIME, March 14, 1949) and a Gentile Bellini Doge in the drawer of a Florentine art shop (TIME, April...
...doubtful authenticity.* This week the Detroit Institute of Arts put on display a third painting attributed to Leonardo that has never before been publicly exhibited: The Adoration with Two Angels, presumably done in Leonardo's youth (between 1472 and 1478) while he was still working in Andrea del Verrocchio's studio in Florence...
...painting shows the Virgin kneeling in adoration of the Christ child, who is being held in the arms of an angel. When it first arrived in the U.S. it was a somewhat different painting. It had apparently left Verrocchio's studio with the kneeling Madonna unfinished. About 40 years later, judging by the style, a minor painter completed it. Examination showed that beneath the visible Madonna was the brush drawing of Verrocchio. The overpaint was removed, revealing Verrocchio's original drawing on white gesso...
Apparently Verrocchio sketched in the design of the Madonna and outlined the position of the Child, and Leonardo finished the painting. Director Richardson insists that there is no question of the painting's authenticity, has the support of eight of the world's outstanding Leonardo experts. But he admits that it may be years before all doubts are cleared...
...Verrocchio's workshops, to the awe of his master, Leonardo's genius unfolded. He learned in a few months almost all that Verrocchio could teach, and soared on through other arts and sciences. He soon played a lute, his countrymen said, more wondrously than any man alive; and the Florentine scientist, Paolo Toscanelli, found the country boy his most precocious pupil...