O Batismo de Cristo (The Baptism of Christ) - Andrea del Verrocchio e Leonardo da Vinci
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florença, Itália
Óleo sobre painel - 177x151 - Circa 1472-1475
The Baptism of Christ is a painting finished around
1475 in the studio of the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea 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.
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 da Vinci as well. The painting is housed in
the Uffizi
Gallery in Florence.
Andrea del Verrocchio was a sculptor,
goldsmith and painter who ran a large and successful workshop in Florence in
the second half of the 15th century. Among his apprentices and close
associates were the painters Botticelli, Botticini, Lorenzo di
Credi and Leonardo da Vinci.
Verrocchio was not himself a prolific painter and very few
pictures are attributed to his hand, his fame lying chiefly in his sculptured
works. Verrocchio's paintings, as are typical of Florentine works of that date,
are in tempera on
wooden panel. The technique of painting artworks in paint, previously used in
Italy only for durable items like parade shields, was introduced to Florence
by Dutch and Flemish painters and
their imported works at around the date that this painting was created.
The painting The Baptism of Christ was, according to
Antonio Billi (1515), commissioned by the Church of S. Salvi, and was later
transferred to the Vallombrosan Sisterhood in Santa Verdiana. In 1810 it
entered the collection of the Accademia and passed to the Uffizi in
1959. In the 16th century the work was discussed in Giorgio
Vasari's Lives of the Painters in the
biographies of both Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci.
A pupil in Verrocchio's workshop, Leonardo was asked to paint an angel in his master's composition. According to Vasari, this was so impressive that Verrocchio quit painting. It is probable that Leonardo painted much of the background landscape as it is painted in oil, like the angel, while the rest of the painting is in tempera.
A pupil in Verrocchio's workshop, Leonardo was asked to paint an angel in his master's composition. According to Vasari, this was so impressive that Verrocchio quit painting. It is probable that Leonardo painted much of the background landscape as it is painted in oil, like the angel, while the rest of the painting is in tempera.
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