TY - BOOK AU - Wallace,Robert TI - The world of Leonardo, 1452-1519, T2 - Time-Life library of art AV - ND623.L5 W32 U1 - 759.5 PY - 1966///] CY - New York PB - Time, inc. KW - Leonardo, N1 - Bibliography: p. 187-188 N2 - In 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most successful artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. Verrocchio's workshop was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities. Other famous painters apprenticed or associated with the workshop include Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Botticelli, and Lorenzo di Credi. Leonardo would have been exposed to a vast range of technical skills and had the opportunity to learn drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modelling ER -