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The National Gallery, London According to Vasari, Verrocchio had been commissioned by an order of Florentine monks to paint a scene of the baptism of Christ. “In this work,” Vasari writes ...

Piero della Francesca (1415-1492) painted the Baptism of Christ ... Many other artists essayed the subject, among them Andrea del Verrocchio, whose misfortune was that his pupil, a young man ...

Verrocchio’s career as a painter was brief. According to Vasari, he was so shamed by the brilliance of Leonardo’s angel in the Uffizi’s 1475 “The Baptism of Christ” — sadly not present ...

Nowadays Verrocchio is not one of the artists that first come to mind when the subject is the Italian Renaissance. However, when one realizes that Leonardo da Vinci — the “Renaissance Man” himself! — ...