“Instead, Leonardo’s studio was like a shop in which he devised a painting and his assistants worked with him to make multiple copies. This is similar to the way it had been in Verrocchio’s bottega. “The process of production is more in keeping with the commissioning of a superbly made chair from a major designer-craftsman,” Kemp wrote after the results of the technical analysis. “We do not ask if a certain glued joint in the chair was made by the head of the workshop or one of his assistants—providing the joint holds and looks good.” Isaacson, Walter. Leonardo da Vinci (p. 313). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. ”
