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ANDREA DEL, an Italian sculptor and painter; born in Florence, Italy in 1435. First a gold- VERSAILLES smith, he became a sculptor almost equally skilled in working marble and bronze. Only one extant picture can be certainly attributed to him, a "Baptism of Christ" in the Florentine Academy, and in this, according to Vasari, an angel's head was by Leonardo da Vinci. Of ANDREA DEL VERROCCHIO his bronze statues the "David" and the "Unbelieving Thomas" in Florence, and the great equestrian statue of Bartolommeo Colleoni at Venice, are among the most notable. He died in Venice in 1488. city of France; capi-