From Venice in the fifteenth century to Mandurama, New South Wales, in our own time is a far and a distant cry. yet there is a link between the two and it is cast in bronze. Proud and arrogant, this magnificently helmeted and armored upscrupulous captain of mercenary soldiers has stared fiercely across the centuries from in front of the Church of San Giovanni e Paola, in Venice. Famous throughout the world as the Colleone monument, Andrea del Verrocchio, whose name means "true eye," began his work on it in Florence when the great Leonardo da Vinci was still an assistant in his workshop. April 10, 1949.