Andrea del Verrocchio
1435-1488
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Florentine Sculptor and Painter of the Early Renaissance
Influences - Donatello, Giotto Bondone, Jan Van Eyke, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and Classical Greek Art
Education - apprenticed to a goldsmith Giuliano Verrocchio
Cause of Death - According to Renaissance biographer Giorgio Vasari when reminiscing about Andrea del Verrocchio untimely demise "So he mended his first model, and cast it in bronze; but he did not perfectly finish it, for being heated in casting it, he caught a chill, of which he died in a few days."
About The Artist
"Verrocchio was an artist of the earlier Florentine
type, carver, painter, and worker in metals, in one; designer, not of
pictures only, but of all things for sacred or household use,
drinking-vessels, ambries, instruments of music, making them all fair to
look upon, filling the common ways of life with the reflexion of some
far-off brightness; and years of patience had refined his hand till his
work was now sought after from distant places." The Renaissance: Studies
in Art and Poetry
by Walter Pater
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