Verrocchio, Andrea del, << vuh ROH kee `oh,` ahn DREH uh dehl >> (about 1435-1488), was an Italian sculptor and painter. One of his great works is a standing figure of David with the head of Goliath at his feet. The work shows how Verrocchio, with his knowledge of anatomy, controlled the muscles of David’s body and face to enrich the meaning of his subject. The bronze group Christ and St. Thomas demonstrates his mastery of psychology in the hesitancy of St. Thomas’s stride and gesture in contrast to the calm and poise of Christ.
Verrocchio’s large bronze of Bartolommeo Colleoni is sometimes called the world’s finest equestrian statue (statue of a man on a horse).
