Andrea del Verrocchio

Andrea del Verrocchio trained as a goldsmith and ran one of the busiest workshops in Florence, producing sculpture, paintings and metalwork, much of it for the Medici. His pupils included Leonardo da Vinci, Perugino and Lorenzo di Credi, and Leonardo painted one of the angels in his Baptism of Christ. As a sculptor he made a bronze David and Christ and Saint Thomas. His equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni in Venice was cast after his death.