拍品 14
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A VENETIAN BRONZE REDUCTION OF THE BARTOLOMEO COLLEONI MONUMENT, after Andrea del Verrochio, Colleoni shown in full armour holding a marshal's baton, his head turned to sinister, on a prancing horse elaborately dressed in state harness with the left foreleg raised, on a rectangular red serpentine marble base and spreading simulated bronze moulded plinth, restorations, 18th Century

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A VENETIAN BRONZE REDUCTION OF THE BARTOLOMEO COLLEONI MONUMENT, after Andrea del Verrochio, Colleoni shown in full armour holding a marshal's baton, his head turned to sinister, on a prancing horse elaborately dressed in state harness with the left foreleg raised, on a rectangular red serpentine marble base and spreading simulated bronze moulded plinth, restorations, 18th Century
25in. (64cm.) wide, 35¾in. (91cm.) high, 12in. (30.5cm.) deep

拍品专文

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

C. Seymour, Jr., The Sculpture of Verrocchio, London, 1971, pp.62-64, 164-165

The celebrated equestrian monument of Colleoni, of which the present group is a later reduction, was the result of a competition announced in 1479. Verrocchio had submitted his model to the Venetian judges in 1481 and he travelled to Venice to create the full-size models, which were completed some time between 1483 and the artist's death in 1488. The actual casting of the group was left to be executed by Alessandro Leopardi, who had competed unsuccessfully for the commission several years previously.