# Christ and Doubting Thomas [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VERROCCHIO, Andrea del]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Bronze, height 230 cm ## Commentary In interpreting the subject, Verrocchio clearly anted to bring out the emotional intensity of the moment when Christ invites Thomas to prove his identity by touching the wound in his side. Thomas stands slightly outside the niche, overlapping the left column, and seems to be moving inward toward Christ, who is posed on an elevated base. <a href="/cgi-bin/search.cgi?author=NOT+%28Orcagna+OR+Robbia%29&&time=any&school=any&form=sculpture&type=any&location=orsanmichele&header=0&other=0&showauthor=1&caption=Exterior+sculptural+decoration+of+Orsanmichele">View</a> images of the exterior sculptural decoration of Orsanmichele. ## Related artworks - [Beheading of St John the Baptist]() - [Bust of a Young Woman]() - [Bust of Lorenzo de' Medici]() - [Christ and Doubting Thomas \(detail\)]() - [Christ and Doubting Thomas]() - [Christ and Doubting Thomas]() - [Christ and Doubting Thomas]() - [Equestrian Statue of Colleoni \(detail\)]() - [Equestrian Statue of Colleoni \(detail\)]() - [Equestrian Statue of Colleoni]() - [Equestrian Statue of Colleoni]() - [Equestrian Statue of Colleoni]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()