Bartolomeo Colleoni - Venezia, Italy
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The statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni is located opposite La Scuola Grande di San Marco and near the Church of SS Giovanni e Paolo in the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venezia, Italy.
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Location: Veneto, Italy
Date Posted: 11/16/2017
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Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400 – 2 November 1475) was an Italian condottiero, who became captain-general of the Republic of Venice. Colleoni "gained reputation as the foremost tactician and disciplinarian of the 15th century". He is also credited with having refurbished the Roman baths at Trescore Balneario.
At his death in 1475 at Malpaga, he left a large sum to the republic for the Turkish war, with a request that an equestrian statue of himself should be erected in the Piazza San Marco. The larger-than-life statue was modelled by Andrea del Verrocchio and cast in bronze after his death by Alessandro Leopardi, but, as no monument was permitted in the piazza, it was placed near the Scuola Grande of St Mark outside the Church of SS Giovanni e Paolo.
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