Candlestick
Also titled Kandelaar
Andrea del Verrocchio (Florence, ca. –1488)
1468 - 1469
- Medium
- bronze (metal), iron (metal)
- Classification
- candlestick
- Dimensions
- height 151.5 cm x diameter 46.5 cm x weight 50.2 kg
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
An Italian inscription on this candlestick’s base states: ‘May and June 1468’. Carlo di Niccola di Messer Vieri de’ Medici was then gonfaloniere, the highest office in Florence. He commissioned the candlestick from the renowned sculptor Verrocchio to commemorate the peace of 1468, marking the end of the war against Venice. The candlestick stood in the town hall of Florence.
