{"id":10025,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10025"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:28","slug":"da-vinci-in-verrocchio-s-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/da-vinci-in-verrocchio-s-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Da Vinci in Verrocchio&#8217;s Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Da Vinci's Left Angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ\" alt=\"Da Vinci's Left Angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/leonardo-s-left-angel-551c4fdaad73.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Two Angels from The Baptism of Christ (Leonardo&#8217;s detail, left angel) 1472-75 by Verrocchio Oil on wood Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence Click hereto see our fine art reproduction of this famous work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a young man Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was apprenticed to the studio of Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor, Andrea del <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10142\">Verrocchio<\/a> . Verrocchio has also been mentioned in connection with an apprenticeship with the great early Italian Renaissance sculptor, <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10032\">Donatello<\/a>, though this claim is unsubstantiated. Like Donatello, Verrocchio&#8217;s leanings were more toward sculpture rather than painting. After the mid 1470s, Verrocchio devoted his efforts exclusively to sculpture. <br> <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Verrocchio\u2019s famous art work, <em>The Baptism of Christ<\/em>, of ca. 1475 (now in the Uffizi) appears to have made quite an impact for young Leonardo da Vinci in the art community. It was da Vinci&#8217;s work as a mere apprentice painting one of the foreground figures, a blond angel, and the atmospheric landscape background that supposedly prompted Verrocchio to give up painting, angered that he had been surpassed by a child if the tale is true. Da Vinci&#8217;s backward-turned angel, twisting to face the viewer, caused quite a stir among artists. Da Vinci&#8217;s device contradicts the traditional composition of forward-facing, horizontal placement of static figures in art up to this time. Verrocchio \u2019s only signed fine art painting is the <em>Madonna with Child and Saints<\/em> in <em>Pistoia Cathedral<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a young man Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was apprenticed to the studio of Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor, Andrea del Verrocchio . Verrocchio has also been mentioned in connection with an apprenticeship with the great early Italian Renaissance sculptor, Donatello, though this claim is unsubstantiated. Like Donatello, Verrocchio&#8217;s leanings were more toward sculpture rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10163,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions\/10163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}