alt Hacker NewsDo they mean that he grabbed a paintbrush one day and painted this out of the blue? Or does "painting" here mean "specifically painted on a canvas" or whatever?
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groundzeros2015 • today at 3:24 PM
No. He was an apprentice to a master which would have shown him tools and techniques.
lawn • today at 3:00 PM
At that time kids spent their lives training under other masters. By this time he's been painting and assisting full time for many years already.
Still impressive of course, but remember that it's not straightforward to compare how things are today with other time periods.
bookofjoe • today at 2:18 PM
>... it became "the only painting by Michelangelo located anywhere in the Americas, and also just one of four easel paintings attributed to him throughout his entire career," during most of which he disparaged oil painting itself.
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I assume by "painting" they mean something akin to "published work" but it very well could just be his earliest "known work".