Word: verrochio
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Manhattan's Metropolitan featured 70 drawings from the 15th to the 19th Century. Standouts were six casual masterpieces by the 15th-Century Florentines, who drew mostly in sepia and silverpoint (indelible). Trained to make each stroke right the first time, men like Michelangelo, Filippino Lippi and Verrochio looked long and hard before translating their models' flesh into thin lines. Their looser chalk studies, like Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl, showed the same supreme accuracy...
...pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael's Nuptials of the Virgin and Bellini's Pietà. From Padua, Giotto's Crucifixion, elaborately and tenderly packed, set out for Paris and from Venice, Giorgione's The Tempest and Mantegna's Saint George...
...Verrochio", Professor Post, small Fogg lecture room...
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