# Candlestick

- By: Andrea del Verrocchio (Florence, ca. –1488)
- Date: 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](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/BK-16933--717a684ccc7d3495e0ab01bac7cf91b4)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/WvSHg/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.