ANDREA DEL VERROCCHIO (1435-1488), Italian goldsmith, sculptor and painter, was born at Florence.
Verrocchio's other works in the precious metals are now lost, but Vasari records that he made many elaborate pieces of plate and jewelry, such as morses for copes, as well as a series of silver statues of the Apostles for the pope's chapel in the Vatican.
Verrocchio died in Venice in 1488, and was buried in the church of St Ambrogio in Florence.
Verrocchio's reputation was widespread in the second half of the 15th century and many well-known artists of the Italian Renaissance studied painting and sculpture at his Florentine studio.
Other paintings ascribed to Verrocchio are the Madonna in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin, the Tobias and the Angel in the National Gallery in London, and the altarpiece in Argiano, with Christ on the Cross between St Jerome and St Anthony.
Verrocchio's reputation as one of the great relief sculptors of the 15th century was clearly established with his cenotaph, or memorial, in the cathedral at Pistoia, to a Tuscan ecclesiastical dignitary, Cardinal Niccolò Forteguerri.
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