![Painting showing Jesus, naked except for a loin-cloth, standing in a shallow stream in a rocky landscape, while to the right, John the Baptist, identifiable by the cross that he carries, tips water over Jesus' head. Two angels kneel at the left. Above Jesus are the hands of God, and a dove descending.](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/The_Baptism_of_Christ_%28Verrocchio_%26_Leonardo%29.jpg/220px-The_Baptism_of_Christ_%28Verrocchio_%26_Leonardo%29.jpg)
![Painting showing Jesus, naked except for a loin-cloth, standing in a shallow stream in a rocky landscape, while to the right, John the Baptist, identifiable by the cross that he carries, tips water over Jesus' head. Two angels kneel at the left. Above Jesus are the hands of God, and a dove descending.](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/The_Baptism_of_Christ_%28Verrocchio_%26_Leonardo%29.jpg/220px-The_Baptism_of_Christ_%28Verrocchio_%26_Leonardo%29.jpg)
Verrocchio's workshop, 1466–76
editIn 1466, at the age of fourteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to the artist Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio, whose workshop was "one of the finest in Florence".[1] Other famous painters apprenticed or associated with the workshop include Domenico Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Botticelli, and Lorenzo di Credi.[2][3] Leonardo would have been exposed to both theoretical training and a vast range of technical skills[4] including drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modelling.[5][nb 1]
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