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I found surprising how Leonardo had to do chores as an aprentice instead of starting art. I thought he started on top because he was one of the best artists of all time. I also found surprising how Leonardo changed perspective on art and that painting realistic paintings wasn’t popular, they preferred religious paintings.

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Based on my reading I found it surprising that Leonardo learned to paint from another person, all this time up to now I thought that Leonardo was self taught, meaning he taugh himself. This is what I found surprising based of my reading of the excerpt.

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What I found interesting was that when Leonardo was alive, they actually had giant studios for multiple people and apprentices. Like Verrochio being a skilled goldsmith, while, the others are painting, making jewelry, making sculptures, and other things. Imagine how much space you need for that. Now a days, I think that artists always had a kinda small space to make paintings, and sculptures. Well I don’t know anything about this so... :/

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I was confused on why Leonardo da Vinci’s teacher is not not as well known as Leonardo himself. I also found it surprising that Leonardo was taught by a master but still wrote backwards.

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What I found interesting is that Leonardo Da Vinci was a apprentice. I think this because we all think that he was always a master painter but the truth is that he had to work his way up to be a master painter.

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I found that the environment that Leonardo worked in was very interesting because it seemed that he and other new comers had started with simple chores while other, more experienced artists have more advance jobs. The text claims, that as the newest member of the bogetta, Leonardo knew nothing about the techniques of art. This shows why new apprentices started simple. Also the text states that Leonardo worked his way up from cleaning. This proves how you must prove yourself in order to advance.

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What I found interesting was how the apprentices were required to do chores.The text says

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Based on my reading of the text, I found it interesting that most artists were interested in painting religious things and not people or nature scenes. I found this interesting because I never really thought about what they painted. I knew that they painted amazing things but I never knew what exactly they painted. That is why I found interesting about Friday’s text.

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Based on my reading what I found interesting is that when Leonardo started his training he was a apprentice and did simple chores as time passed by Leonardo in his training became a better and skilled artist and even Verrocchi noticed Leonardo’s progress. This is what I found interesting.

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I found it interesting that part of their training was doing chores.

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I found it interesting that part of their training was doing chores.

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I found it surprising that Leo had to do chores and work under someone else. He was one of the bast artists of all time so that was pretty surprising.

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What I found surprising about the article Expert from Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Genius was that the young apprentices had to do the chores like sweeping the floors and cleaned brushes and mallets and I am sure much more. In the text it claims “ The younger apprentices, like himself, swept the floors and cleaned brushes and mallets”.

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What I found interesting in this text is that the new apprentices had to do chores. I found this interesting as it was a smart workaround on Verrocchio’s part, to see who would have to do the dirty work like cleaning that had nothing to do with art.

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Something that I found interesting when reading “excerpt from Leonardo da Vinci: renaissance genius” was that part of the artists traing was to sweep and do major chores. I never thought that this could be a part of an artists training.

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I found it surprising that Leonardo had to learn art from a master. In the text it says “there was so much to learn from his new master”. This was shocking because I didn’t know that he had to study art to become the amazing artist he is. I always thought that he would be the one teaching.

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Based on my reading of Friday’s text; Exerpt from Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Genius by Barbara O’Connor, I found it surprising that most people in the Middle Ages were not interested in painting lifelike humans or nature scenes. This surprised me because millions upon millions of people today, paint lifelike humans or nature scenes. This just goes to show how much art has evolved over the past few centuries.

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Something that I had found surprising was that Leonardo da Vinci was once just an apprentice who cleaned up after all the other artists. I found this surprising because he is considered one of the most talented artists. One example from the text is on line 6 or 7 (I’m not sure) when the text states “The younger apprentices, like himself, swept the floors and cleaned brushes and mallets.” This shows that Leonardo da Vinci, a really famous artist was once just an apprentice who swept the floors. As you can see what I have found surprising was that Leonardo da Vinci was once an apprentice who only would clean up after everyone else.

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I found it surprising that Leonardo da Vinci originally started as an apprentice who just did simple chores most of the time. Now, Leonardo is known around the globe as one of the greatest artists of all time

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I found it interesting that before Leonardo da Vinci became a famous artist he started off by sweeping floors such as other apprentices did too. Later on he evolved and became a world wide recognized artist by the tasks he had to complete for other artists. This is interesting because I am sure other artists or famous people started off by doing chores and became known for their talents. Leonardo also learned many skills from working in the bottega, which helped him in many ways.

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I found it interesting about how much the skills he gained in the bottega helped shape his future and made him who he was. I found it interesting how much emphasis there was that he didn’t have a regular education, but he turned out very successful coming from the bottega. It taught him more than just art. He learned a lot about art, but he also learned about mathematics, science, philosophy, and perspective. All of these teachings along with the skills he obtained made him such a great artist and scientist/inventor.

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I was not here on Friday but I’m sure it was a very interesting and surprising text.

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What I found suprising interesting, suprising, and conffusing about “Leonardo de Vinci: Renaissance Genius” was that I thought Leonardo was self taught, but Verrochico taught him. I also found interesting was how Leonardo learned his to do all those mini tasks that helped him become a major artist in his time. Leonardo worked his way up from an apprentice to a master craftsman.

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I found it interesting that he had started out sweeping the floors and now he is considered one of the greatest artists in the world. In the text it states “ is considered one of the worlds greatest artists and inventors.” This proves that Leonardo started out as an unskilled apprentice yet became an amazing artists.

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One big thing I found surprising, I did not think the great Leonardo da Vinci did not start out as a great artist I was surprised to see that he had no learning of art

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Based on my reading of the text what I found suprising was the quality of living the kids had. The new kids slept on a straw covered floor. The kids were also sent to live with a stranger who taught them art. The new kids had to run errands instead of draw.

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Based on the reading I found it interesting that one of the most famous artists in the world started out sweeping. In the text the author explains how da Vinci started out sweeping like all of the other new members of the bottega. This is interesting because I would think that someone so talented would have had the top level private lessons with the best people in the world since they were very young.