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At a young age Leonardo’s father apprenticed him to the workshop of Verocchio. Verocchio’s area of expertise was perspective, which artists had just newly begun to study, and Leonardo mastered it rapidly. Leonardo quickly surpassed Verocchio, and by the time he was in his early twenties he was well-known. “There are three branches of perspective: first, the diminution of objects as they recede from the eye, known as Diminishing Perspective. Second, the ways in which colors vary as the