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The Baptism of Christ (Verrocchio and Leonardo)
Painting by Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci
The Baptism of Christ is an oil-on-panel painting finished around in the studio of the Italian Renaissance painterAndrea del Verrocchio and generally ascribed to him and his pupil Leonardo da Vinci.
Some art historians discern the hands of other members of Verrocchio's workshop in the painting as well.
Battesimo di cristo verrocchio biography
The picture depicts the Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist as recorded in the Biblical Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. The angel to the left is recorded as having been painted by the youthful Leonardo, a fact which has excited so much special comment and mythology, that the importance and value of the picture as a whole and within the œuvre of Verrocchio is often overlooked.
Modern critics also attribute much of the landscape in the background to Leonardo as well.[1] The painting is housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
Subject matter
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