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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me importance and expressiveness. The bones arestrongly accentuated, showing a perfect acquaintance withthe skull. The tufted forelock, imitated from the antique,so stunted and insignificant in the horse of Donatello, iscaught up to the same flame-like point in both statue andhead. The wrinkles in the neck are exactly the same innumber—nine—whereas in the horse of Donatello they arebut seven. This point of resemblance being purely stylisticis of importance, as will presently be seen. Above all,there is in both the Venice statue and the Naples head thesame nobility of expression and elan—qualities which recallthe steeds of the Parthenon sculptures, and which theheavy Flanders war-horse of Donatello lacks completely. * Donatellos wooden horse, formerly belonging to the Capodilistafamily, now in the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, is more spirited thanthe bronze horse of the Gattemelata, but there is a vast differencebetween the construction of the head and that of the Naples bronze.
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u oj du oo owIu <o bJ wD% WDC? t-H OK EnO Q<cd- £ N .*- o THE COLLEONI STATUE 197 One sole difference between the Naples head and the Venicestatue is perceptible—the treatment of the mane—whichin the latter is luxuriantly curled in the manner peculiarto Verrocchio in his arrangement of human hair, and inthe former is hogged and stiffly indicated. In this and inthis alone is there any resemblance between the Napleshead and the horse of Donatello. This stiff and stylistictreatment of the mane is in both cases imitated from theantique, and we have now to see what antique sculptureexisted in Florence which may have served the two Mastersas model. It is generally asserted that in the construction of hishorse Donatello imitated the equestrian statue of MarcusAurelius in Rome, but if the two be compared scarcely onepoint of resemblance is to be found. The head in particulardiffers essentially. In the Roman bronze the shape of thenose and mouth is completely different, and the mane

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