Leonardo Joins Painters' Guild

1472

Twenty years old, the apprentice Leonardo registered with the Compagnia di San Luca in Florence as a qualified painter. He was still working in Verrocchio's workshop, where he had painted an angel in his master's Baptism of Christ that reportedly made Verrocchio vow never to paint again. His angel reportedly convinced Verrocchio never to paint again, though this story of master surpassed by pupil may be apocryphal.