See how Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci learned from Andrea del Verrocchio of the earlier Florentine school
Leonardo's apprenticeship to Verrocchio.
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NARRATOR: When Leonardo arrived in Florence, the most esteemed painter was Andrea del Verrocchio. Verrocchio--meaning "true eye." He was an artist of the earlier Florentine school--a carver of stone, a worker in metals, a painter.
Leonardo entered his workshop as a student, copying the stiff folds of drapery with a marvelous facility, drawing from life flowers and plants, making patient and skillful studies of hands. He painted, at this time, an angel in a picture which Verrocchio was executing of St. John baptizing Christ. This was common practice in the studios of the time: the promising pupil often assisted his busy master. Leonardo's angel is on the left.
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No portrait exists of the youthful Leonardo, but tradition has it that he posed for this bronze by Verrocchio.
VOICE (Vasari): As a youth he devoted much time to music, and being filled with a lofty and delicate spirit, he could sing and improvise divinely.
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Leonardo entered his workshop as a student, copying the stiff folds of drapery with a marvelous facility, drawing from life flowers and plants, making patient and skillful studies of hands. He painted, at this time, an angel in a picture which Verrocchio was executing of St. John baptizing Christ. This was common practice in the studios of the time: the promising pupil often assisted his busy master. Leonardo's angel is on the left.
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No portrait exists of the youthful Leonardo, but tradition has it that he posed for this bronze by Verrocchio.
VOICE (Vasari): As a youth he devoted much time to music, and being filled with a lofty and delicate spirit, he could sing and improvise divinely.
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