. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. e of the latter. The two artistsSTUDY OF A HORSEMAN (ASCRIBED To vERRocLiiio). uiust, howcvcr, have liacl uiauy op-portunities of meeting again lateron: first of all, in Florence, where Perugino was working in 1482;then in Lombardy in 1496; then, after 1500, once more in Florence,where Perugino had set up a studio which was much father, Giovanni Santi, has perpetuated the memory ofthis connection in three well-known lines, wherein he speaks oftwo adolescents of the same age animated by the same passions—Leonardo da V
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. e of the latter. The two artistsSTUDY OF A HORSEMAN (ASCRIBED To vERRocLiiio). uiust, howcvcr, have liacl uiauy op-portunities of meeting again lateron: first of all, in Florence, where Perugino was working in 1482;then in Lombardy in 1496; then, after 1500, once more in Florence,where Perugino had set up a studio which was much father, Giovanni Santi, has perpetuated the memory ofthis connection in three well-known lines, wherein he speaks oftwo adolescents of the same age animated by the same passions—Leonardo da Vinci and Perugino, or Pietro della Pieve, a divinepainter : Due giovin par detate e par damoriLeonardo da Vinci el Perusino,Pier della Pieve chè un divin pittore. Yet another Umbrian, Fiorenzo di Lorenzo of Perugia, appears tohave worked in Verroc-chios studio. His first °^dated work, the altar- (f?^piece in the Gallery ofPerugia (1472) showshim, at least, to havebeen influenced by theFlorentine master.^ STUDY OF A HORSEMAN (ASCRIBED TO VERROCCHIo).. Lorenzo di Andrea Credi (1459—1537), the son and grandson ofgoldsmiths, was placed, when quite a child, under Verrocchios tuition, ^ Schmarsow, Pititurricchio in Rum, p. 5. Bode, Italienisc/ie Bi/diiauer, p. , Sandra Botticelli, p. 38. LEONARDOS FELLOW-STUDENTS 29 and was still working under liim, at the age of twenty-one, content withthe modest salary of one tlorin (about £2) a month. He was Hvingat that time (1480) with his mother Mona Lisa, a widow agedsixty years. His two sisters, Lucrezia and Lena, were fortune of the little household consisted of a tiny property atCasarotta. A tender friendship united Lorenzo and his master, whom heaccompanied later to Venice, to assist in the of the statue
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