CREDI, LORENZO DI (1457-1537), Italian artist, whose surname was Barducci, was born at Florence. He was the least gifted of three artists who began life as journeymen with Andrea del Verrocchio. The other two were Leonardo da Vinci and Perugino, of whom he was the companion and friend. Credi had a respectable local practice at Florence. He was consulted on most occasions when the opinion of his profession was required on public grounds, e.g. in 1491 as to the fronting, and in 1498 as to the lantern of the Florentine cathedral, in 1504 as to the place due to Michelangelo's "David." At rare intervals he produced large ecclesiastical pictures. The greater part of his time was spent on easel pieces, upon which he expended minute and patient labour. But he worked with such industry that numbers of his Madonnas exist in European galleries. The best of his altar-pieces is that which represents the Virgin and Child with Saints in the cathedral of Pistoia. A fine example of his easel roundels is in the gallery of Mainz. In his old age he withdrew on an annuity into the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, where he died on Jan. 12, 1537. The National Gallery, London, has two pictures of the Virgin and Child, and a portrait of Costanza de' Medici by Credi.