And no wonder, for the man who bore it was proficient in almost every area of intellectual and cultural endeavor - in mathematics and geometry, in physics, engineering, anatomy, geology, botany, and geography; in sculpture, architecture, and not the least in painting. ... Leonardo's artistic education was the one available to all of Verrocchio's young apprentices" grinding and mixing pigments, learning geometry and the chemistry of colors, preparing panels to receive paintings itself, and working clay and casting bronze into finished sculptures. ... The notebooks contain extensiv...

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