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Putto with Dolphin

sculpture by Verrocchio

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  • Andrea del Verrocchio: David
    In Andrea del Verrocchio: Paintings and sculptures

    A second bronze figure, the Putto with Dolphin, is important in the development of freestanding Renaissance sculpture for its spiral design, which represents a successful effort to evolve a pose in which all views are of equal significance. It was originally commissioned for a fountain in the Medici villa in…

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