A life in The Workshop · composite, based on the record
An apprentice, fourteen
He grinds blue all morning so the master can paint all afternoon. In ten years the workshop may be his.
The law of The Workshop
Florence, about 1490: a city of about 60,000 under Brunelleschi's finished dome. Apprentices grind pigments in open workshops, and wool and silk pay for it all.
A life in The Workshop · composite, based on the record
He grinds blue all morning so the master can paint all afternoon. In ten years the workshop may be his.
Meanwhile, in the same age
