Andrea del Verrocchio

Andrea del Verrocchio was a Florentine sculptor, painter and goldsmith whose busy workshop trained Leonardo da Vinci, Perugino and others. His sculpture includes a bronze David and the Christ and Saint Thomas at Orsanmichele, and he died in Venice while working on the bronze equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni. His painting The Baptism of Christ in the Uffizi has an angel said to be by the young Leonardo. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has his terracotta sketch model for the Forteguerri monument in Pistoia Cathedral.