We have unfortunately but few terms for comparison, as the only paintings which can be with certainty ascribed to Verrocchio are not pictures of action. A drawing however like that of his angel
In all that concerns movement, Verrocchio was a learner from Pollaiuolo, rather than an initiator, and he probably never attained his master’s proficiency. We have unfortunately but few terms for comparison, as the only paintings which can be with certainty ascribed to Verrocchio
To understand what new elements he introduced, we must at this point carry out
our determination to enquire into the source of our pleasure in landscape painting
to avoid a subject of vast extent for landscape painting as practised by Florentines
Before Verrocchio precursor first Alessio Baldovinetti and Pollaiuolo had attempted to treat
In all that concerns movement, Verrocchio was a learner from Pollaiuolo, rather than an initiator, and he probably never attained his master’s proficiency. We have unfortunately but few terms for comparison, as the only paintings which can be with certainty ascribed to Verrocchio
To understand what new elements he introduced, we must at this point carry out
our determination to enquire into the source of our pleasure in landscape painting
to avoid a subject of vast extent for landscape painting as practised by Florentines
Before Verrocchio precursor first Alessio Baldovinetti and Pollaiuolo had attempted to treat
In all that concerns movement, Verrocchio was a learner from Pollaiuolo, rather than an initiator, and he probably never attained his master’s proficiency. We have unfortunately but few terms for comparison, as the only paintings which can be with certainty ascribed to Verrocchio
To understand what new elements he introduced, we must at this point carry out
our determination to enquire into the source of our pleasure in landscape painting
to avoid a subject of vast extent for landscape painting as practised by Florentines
Before Verrocchio precursor first Alessio Baldovinetti and Pollaiuolo had attempted to treat
In all that concerns movement, Verrocchio was a learner from Pollaiuolo, rather than an initiator, and he probably never attained his master’s proficiency. We have unfortunately but few terms for comparison, as the only paintings which can be with certainty ascribed to Verrocchio
Learn MoreIn all that concerns movement, Verrocchio was a learner from Pollaiuolo, rather than an initiator, and he probably never attained his master’s proficiency. We have unfortunately but few terms for comparison, as the only paintings which can be with certainty ascribed to Verrocchio
To understand what new elements he introduced, we must at this point carry out
our determination to enquire into the source of our pleasure in landscape painting
to avoid a subject of vast extent for landscape painting as practised by Florentines
Before Verrocchio precursor first Alessio Baldovinetti and Pollaiuolo had attempted to treat
In all that concerns movement, Verrocchio was a learner from Pollaiuolo, rather than an initiator, and he probably never attained his master’s proficiency. We have unfortunately but few terms for comparison, as the only paintings which can be with certainty ascribed to Verrocchio
To understand what new elements he introduced, we must at this point carry out
our determination to enquire into the source of our pleasure in landscape painting
to avoid a subject of vast extent for landscape painting as practised by Florentines
Before Verrocchio precursor first Alessio Baldovinetti and Pollaiuolo had attempted to treat
A drawing however like that of his angel, in the British Museum, which attempts as much movement as the Hercules by Pollaiuolo in the same collection, is of obviously inferior quality
Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium
And while under the spell of illusion this hyperæsthesia not bought with drugs and not paid for with cheques drawn on vitality
But in landscape, Verrocchio was a decided to understand new elements he introduced, we must point out on determination
Enquire into source of our pleasure in landscape painting or avoid vast extent for which is not the place landscape painting
Before Verrocchio, first Alessio Baldovinetti and Pollaiuolo had attempted to treat landscape as naturalistically as painting
Their ideal was to note it down with absolute correctness from a given point of view; their subject almost invariably the Valdarno; their achievement, a bird’s-eye view of this Tuscan paradise
Nor can it be denied that this gives pleasure, but the pleasure is only such as is conveyed by tactile values. Instead of having the difficulty we should have in nature to distinguish
Different as these two were from each other, they have this much in common, that in their works which remain to us, dating, it is true, from their years of maturity, there is no touch of mediæval sentiment
Now if landscape were, as most people vaguely believe, a pleasure coming through the eyes alone
then the Pollaiuolesque treatment could be equalled by none that has followed
Were landscape really this, then nothing more inartistic than gradation of tint, atmosphere
But as a matter of fact the pleasure we take in actual landscape is only to a limited extent an affair of the eye
