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Bartolomeo Colleoni by Verrocchio
Catalogue:
Fine Art:
Sculpture:
Bronze:
Pre 1970 item# 651156
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Andy Yoon Sculpture Gallery
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Colleoni was born at Solza, in the countryside of Bergamo (Lombardy), where he prepared his magnificent mortuary chapel, the Cappella Colleoni, in a shrine that he seized when it was refused him by the local confraternity, the Consiglio della Misericordia. The family was a noble one, exiled with the rest of the Guelphs by the Visconti. Bartolomeo's father Paolo seized the castle of Trezzo by wile and held it by force, until he was assassinated by his cousins, probably acting on order of Fili ...click for details
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