Verrocchio master of Leonardo

About this book

The exhibition brings together for the first time extraordinary masterpieces by Andrea del Verrocchio, one of the greatest masters of the fifteenth century, together with fundamental works by artists such as Pietro Perugino, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Leonardo da Vinci, his most famous pupil, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death. By Francesco Caglioti and Andrea De Marchi and born from the collaboration with the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, which will host a section, the exhibition celebrates the figure of an artist who as a painter, sculptor, goldsmith and draftsman is he was a brilliant interpreter of the values of the Renaissance in the Medicean Florence of Cosimo il Vecchio, Piero and Lorenzo the Magnificent and that with his workshop influenced an entire generation of 15th century masters in Italy and in Europe. Exhibition: Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (08.03-14.07.2019).