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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0004424
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Work Title (display):
Tobias and the Angel
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
ca. 1470-1480
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2009-04-08
Work Creator (display):
Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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false
Work Creator notes (display):
Italian painter, sculptor, architect, designer, theorist, engineer and scientist. He was the founding father of what is called the High Renaissance style and exercised an enormous influence on contemporary and later artists. His writings on art helped establish the ideals of representation and expression that were to dominate European academies for the next 400 years. The standards he set in figure draughtsmanship, handling of space, depiction of light and shade, representation of landscape, evocation of character and techniques of narrative radically transformed the range of art. A number of his inventions in architecture and in various fields of decoration entered the general currency of 16th-century design. Although he brought relatively few works to completion, and even fewer have survived, Leonardo was responsible for some of the most influential images in the history of art. The 'Mona Lisa' (Paris, Louvre) may fairly be described as the world's most famous painting. When the extent of his writings on many branches of science became increasingly apparent during the 19th century, he appeared to epitomize the idea of the universal genius and was hailed as one of the prophets of the modern era. More recent assessments of his intellectual achievements have recognized the medieval and Classical framework on which his theories were constructed but have done nothing to detract from the awesome range and intensity of his thought. (Martin Kemp. "Leonardo da Vinci." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 21 Apr. 2009 .)
Work Creator (display):
Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian, 1435-1488)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
Work Creator gender
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Work Creator notes (display):
Italian sculptor, painter, draughtsman and goldsmith. He was the leading sculptor in Florence in the second half of the 15th century, and his highly successful workshop, in which Leonardo da Vinci trained, had a far-reaching impact on younger generations. A wide range of patrons, including the Medici family, the Venetian State and the city council of Pistoia, commissioned works from him. Exceptionally versatile, Verrocchio was talented both as a sculptorof monumental bronzes, silver figurines and marble reliefsand as a painter of altarpieces. He was inspired by the contemporary interest in the Antique and in the study of nature, yet, approaching almost every project as a new challenge, developed new conceptions that often defied both traditional aesthetics and conventional techniques. His fountains, portrait busts and equestrian sculpture are indebted to an iconographic tradition rooted in the early 15th century and yet they are transformed by his original outlook. His funerary ensembles are unique, so that, despite the great admiration they inspired, they had no imitators. Though a highly important artist in his own right, Verrocchio has often had the misfortune of being seen as in the shadow of his pupil Leonardo. (Yael Even. "Verrocchio, Andrea del." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 21 Apr. 2009 .)
Work Style Period:
Renaissance
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Renaissance
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Work Style Period:
15th century
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15th century
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Work Subject:
figures
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figures
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Work Subject:
Christianity
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Christianity
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Work Subject:
angels
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angels
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false
Work Subject:
men (male humans)
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men (male humans)
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Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
temprea on poplar
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
National Gallery (Great Britain)
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
London, England
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Brown, David Alan. Leonardo Da Vinci: Origins of a Genius. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
image_source_copy_from_print_name
Brown, David Alan. Leonardo Da Vinci: Origins of a Genius. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Image Source Reproduction citation
false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
0-300-07246-5
Image Source Reproduction page number:
49
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
38
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© Photo Tosi, Florence
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
public domain
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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