I’m getting my share of famous Renaissance bronze equestrian statues. Two days ago it was Donatello’s ‘Gattemelata’ and today it was the Colleoni, by Verocchio, in Venice. Verocchio’s work came about 25 years later than Donatello’s, but you can see the debt to the earlier work. Verocchio went for more drama and less stateliness. Colleoni himself looks crazed, and his horse wild, while Donatello’s Erasmo di Narni (see earlier post) looks placid and his horse under complete control.