leonardo was a natural child the son of a farmer's daughter katherina one day had a role in the hay with a promising young notary called 7 pm of course mary's was out of the question a bright future awaited said pietro provided he married a wife from a prestigious family. that's why labor nardo was never truly part of the creative circles of florence around lorenzo the major with artists like the betty dylan dial or michelangelo these were folks who wrote latin sonnets and could hold their own in fine society they're not i was never part of that. but said piero never forgot his son and was only his ready to use his connections to help him get work but the lack of a proper education left young leonardo at a major disadvantage. instead he was apprenticed to the workshop of one of the most prolific artists of florence and that i am here here leonardo learned how to mix pigments prepare panels or transfer a large fresco drawings called cartoons to a plaster wall and eventually for allowed him to paint one of the angels in his panel of the baptism of cries it's obvious that leonardo's angel i