283-289

Updated: October 27, 2025

Not the ball we see now, which was struck by lightning and hurled into the street in 1492. Verrocchio's was rather smaller than the present ball. See Crowe and Cavalcaselle, History of Painting in Italy: London, 1903, p. 116, note 4. See pp. 283-289.

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