Thus I obliged. I spent many days on that one section of the painting, and for good measure I finished the rest of the painting for my master. After a week of straight painting I unveiled the work to Verrocchio, the man was dumbstruck. He set his paint brush down said to me “Thats it,” and he never painted again.
It was 1480 when I went to the city-state of Florence to work in the garden of the Piazza San Marco for the Medici family. I was commissioned twice by other leaders yet I never finished either work. I spent much of my time sketching the natural world and studying the sciences. After conducting numerous experiments, many of them with the natural world of botany and alchemy, I settled upon the fact that of all the things I knew, I knew the least about the human body. Why should I know less about my own body than I do of that of a horse? I went to Lorenzo de' Medici with my proposition. He was furious. I was brought to the church where they accused me of several charges. I wasn't listening . At the end of the day they told me that I could not move forward with my experiment. Now I had two options I could either dig up the bodies to fulfill my curiosity, or listen to the church and abandon my studies.
It was 1480 when I went to the city-state of Florence to work in the garden of the Piazza San Marco for the Medici family. I was commissioned twice by other leaders yet I never finished either work. I spent much of my time sketching the natural world and studying the sciences. After conducting numerous experiments, many of them with the natural world of botany and alchemy, I settled upon the fact that of all the things I knew, I knew the least about the human body. Why should I know less about my own body than I do of that of a horse? I went to Lorenzo de' Medici with my proposition. He was furious. I was brought to the church where they accused me of several charges. I wasn't listening . At the end of the day they told me that I could not move forward with my experiment. Now I had two options I could either dig up the bodies to fulfill my curiosity, or listen to the church and abandon my studies.