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Looking for Leonardo

The figures were worked individually from the front, and then attached to the background. The Verrocchio figures (left) have simple sheets of silver on their backs, while the turbaned guard is "highly expressive and coherent from the rear," writes Radke.

Museo Dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence. Photo: Antonio Quattrone, 2009

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