Verrocchio, ANDREA DEL, goldsmith, sculptor, and painter, was born at Florence in 1435, and died at Venice in 1488. First a goldsmith, he became a sculptor almost equally skilled in working marble and bronze. Only one extant picture can be certainly attributed to him, a Baptism of Christ in the Florentine Academy, and in this, according to
Vasari, an angel's head was by Leonardo da Vinci. Of his bronze statues the 'David' and the 'Unbelieving Thomas' in Florence, and the great equestrian statue of Bartolommeo Colleoni at Venice, are amongst the most notable.