{"id":10142,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10141"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"verrocchio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/verrocchio\/","title":{"rendered":"Verrocchio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488) was an <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10051\">Italian Renaissance<\/a> artist working in the Florentine court of famous art patrons, Lorenzo and Giuliano de&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10133\">Medici<\/a>. Verrocchio ran a successful studio in Florence, his apprentices including Italian Renaissance artists <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10087\">Perugino<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10025\">Leonardo<\/a> da Vinci, Ghirlandaio and <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10124\">Botticelli<\/a>. <br> <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Primarily a sculptor, among Verrocchio&#8217;s most famous art works is the bronze statue <em>David<\/em> (ca. 1476) commissioned by Lorenzo and Giuliano de&#8217; Medici. Verrocchio&#8217;s youthful David stands with the head of Goliath at his feet, sporting a relaxed <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#contrapposto\">contrapposto<\/a> stance reminiscent of Greco-Roman athelete statuary. His last work was an equestrian statue of <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13\">condottiere<\/a> Ludovico Colleoni, commissioned by the republic of Venice. Verrocchio died before the Colleoni monument was completely finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488) was an Italian Renaissance artist working in the Florentine court of famous art patrons, Lorenzo and Giuliano de&#8217; Medici. Verrocchio ran a successful studio in Florence, his apprentices including Italian Renaissance artists Perugino, Leonardo da Vinci, Ghirlandaio and Botticelli. Primarily a sculptor, among Verrocchio&#8217;s most famous art works is the bronze [&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-10142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142","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=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10324,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions\/10324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}