Word: bartolommeo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Florentine Verrocchio is best known for his enormous and powerful equestrian statue of the hawk-faced Renaissance condottiere, Bartolommeo Colleoni, in Venice, and his elegant bronze figure of David astride Goliath's head; also for the fact that he was Leonardo da Vinci's first teacher and was said to have turned from painting to sculpture when his precocious pupil surpassed...