Andrea del Verrocchio
(1435, Firenze - 1488, Venezia)
| Trained as a goldsmith, a sculptor, and a painter | |
| Had a large academy in Florence that became
the principal cente of the arts. Pupils are Leonardo, Botticelli, Lorenzo di Credi and Perugino |
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| Bronze equestrian statue of the Venetian confottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni at Campo dei Santi Gionvanni e Paolo in Venice | |
| 1470-72 | David, Museo Nazionale, Florence |
| 1470 | Baprism of Chirst, Uffizi, Florence |
| 1476 | Boy with a Dolphin for a fontain in the courtyard of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
| Madonna and Child, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY | |