Sculpted in clay, a toddler balances his plump body on his right foot as he raises his left leg and right arm. In ths photograph, his body is squared to us. His left hand, on our right, rests near his hip. Gazing up and to our left, his cheeks are puffed in blowing through pursed lips, and his hair falls in soft ringlets. The fingers of his raised hand are folded into a loose fist. Tipped slightly forward onto his toes, he balances on a gold-half dome.

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Putto Poised on a Globe

Andrea del Verrocchio (Florentine, c. 1435 - 1488)

c. 1480

Medium: unbaked clay
Classification: Sculpture
Dimensions: overall: 75 x 38.3 x 23 cm (29 1/2 x 15 1/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
Culture: Florentine
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CSD
Credit line: Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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