Category Archives: Andrea Verrocchio

LEONARDO’S GHOST DOG… BEST IN SHOW

Posted on February 19, 2019 by

There is a fifteenth-century Italian painting in the National Gallery of London entitled ‘TOBIAS AND THE ANGEL’. I have a love/hate relationship with this 33 in. x 26 in. panel for a Florentine altarpiece. No doubt, this painting seen from … Continue reading →

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CELEBRATION OF A TYPO

Posted on January 15, 2019 by

…how a 500-year-old spelling mistake was enough to confound history and gift me a premise for a time-slip ghost story                 Excerpt from ‘LISABETTA-a stolen glance’ [But for a single misshapen letter, I … Continue reading →

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEONARDO!

Posted on April 15, 2017 by

Born April 15th – 1452 in the town of Vinci “There was born to me, a grandson, the son of Ser Piero my son, on the 15th day of April, a Saturday, at the third hour of the night. He … Continue reading →

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