So pronounced was his talent, reports Vasari, that when his master, Ghirlandaio, absented himself momentarily from his work in Santa Maria Novella, and the young art student took the opportunity to draw «the scaffolding, trestles, pots of paint, brushes and the apprentices at their tasks» in this brief absence, he did it so skillfully that upon his return the master exclaimed: «This boy knows more than I do.&raqu
So pronounced was his talent, reports Vasari, that when his master, Ghirlandaio, absented himself momentarily from his work in Santa Maria Novella, and the
young art student took the opportunity to draw «the scaffolding, trestles, pots of paint, brushes and the apprentices at their tasks» in this brief absence, he did it
so skillfully that upon his return the master exclaimed: «This boy knows more than I do.&raqu
so skillfully that upon his return the master exclaimed: «This boy knows more than I do.»