The saddle belt is cast “from life” from a woven band that was added onto the wax model’s belly. Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian, ca. 1425–1488) and Alessandro Leopardi (Italian, ca. 1465–1512), Equestrian Monument of Bartolomeo Colleoni, Venetian, 1479–96, over life size (Piazza SS Giovanni e Paolo, Venice). See general view of the monument, fig. 100.