Identifier: verocchio00crut (find matches)
Title: Verocchio
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cruttwell, Maud
Subjects: Verrocchio, Andrea del, 1435?-1488
Publisher: London : Duckworth New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ere to have been above the cornice,unless they were removed during the completion of theMonument. In an unfinished state the Tomb remained for no lessthan 240 years, until, that is to say, the middle of theeighteenth century. In 1753, Gaetano Masoni, a sculptorof Settignano, completed the Monument, and set on itthat cachet of vulgarity which at first glance makes it seemincredible that any part of it belongs to the Quattrocento.To him are due the bust of the Cardinal, the Sarcophaguswith the two huge children holding reversed torches, thesurmounting stemma, and the surrounding baroque frame- * See Doc. xii. p. 3, published by Beani, Notizie Storichesu NiccoloForteguerri, p. 124. Vasari, in his Life of Lorenzo Lotti, states : Fini Lorenzetto nella sua giovanezza lasepoltura del Cardinale Forte-guerri posta in San Jacopo di Pistoia, e stata gia comminciata daAndrea del Verrocchio; e fra laltre cose vi e di mano di Lorenzettouna Carita che non e se non ragionevole. Vasari, iv. 578. XXXII
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SUPPOSED STUDY FOR THE FORTEGUERRI TOMB. VICTORIAAND ALBERT MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON Face p. 133 THE FORTEGUERRI TOMB 133 work. Documents recording this commission are likewisepreserved in the Archives of the Cathedral. So much for the history of the Monument. Althoughnot one fraction of the sculpture is by the hand ofVerrocchio, it is worth while to examine such parts asbelong to his design and were executed in his bottega, thatis to say, the figures of Christ, of the four Angels sup-porting the Mandorla, and of the Faith and Hope. Tothese must be added, although there is no documentaryevidence in support, the relief with the inscription sup-ported by the Donatellesque putti. But before examiningthe marble itself a few words must be said as to theauthenticity of a clay model in the Victoria and AlbertMuseum, South Kensington, No. 7599, which is claimedby several critics to be Verrocchios own work, and officiallydeclared to be the original model prepared by him in 1474at the commissio

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