Verrocchio

	"The Merchants Guild commissioned from him two silver reliefs for the ends of the altar of San Giovanni which when they were finished won him great praise and fame." I-232 Beheading of the Baptist, Silver altar, Baptistery, Florence
	"He was commissioned to make a bronze statue of David, five feet in height, which after it was finished was placed, much to his credit, at the head of the staircase in the Palazzo della Signoria, where the chain used to be. " I-233 David
	Head of Goliath (detail of David)
	"He did two separate bronze heads in half relief, one of Alexander the Great in profile, the other a fanciful portrait of Darius..Both these heads were sent by Lorenzo the Magnificent to King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. " I-233 Alexander the Great
	"For Giovanni and Piero de' Medici he made a bronze tomb in San Lorenzo, completely in the round, with a porphyry sarcophagus supported by four bronze quarter pieces with twisting foliage, finely wrought and finished with wonderful care." I-234 Tomb of Giovanni and Piero de' Medici, San Lorenzo
	"Meanwhile...in the oratory of Orsanmichele, nothing was done about the bronze statue of St Thomas feeling for the wound in the side of Christ...but eventually Andrea was asked to make the two statues. " I-234 Christ and St Thomas, Orsanmichele
	"In the figure of St Thomas the artist has expressed incredulity and impatience to know the truth, along with the love that compels the saint to place his hand, with beautiful effect, in the side of Christ; " I-234 Christ and St Thomas (detail)
	Christ and St Thomas (detail)
	"and in Christ himself, who with a gesture of wonderful spontaneity is raising one arm and opening his garment to dispel the doubts of his incredulous disciple, there is seen, so to say, all the grace and divinity that art can convey. " I-235 Christ and St Thomas (detail)