Leonardo was a very talented artist as a youngster. At 12 years old his father apprenticed him to Verroccho. Although we can’t be sure of what his very first painting was, “in 1476 Leonardo was still considered Verrocchio's assistant. In Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ (1470, Uffizi, Florence), the kneeling angel at the left of the painting is by Leonardo.In 1478 Leonardo became an independent master. His first commission, to paint an altarpiece for the chapel of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine town hall, was never executed. His first large painting, The Adoration of the Magi (begun 1481, Uffizi), left unfinished, was ordered in 1481 for the Monastery of San Donato a Scopeto, Florence. Other works ascribed to his youth are the so-called Benois Madonna (1478? Hermitage, Saint Petersburg), the portrait Ginevra de' Benci (1474?, National Gallery, Washington, D.C.), and the unfinished Saint Jerome (1481?, Pinacoteca, Vatican).”
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