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Fall Asleep in a Renaissance Painter's Workshop | Sleep Story
A small boxwood board, a silver drawing point, and a twelve-year-old boy beginning his apprenticeship in Renaissance Florence. Before he can paint a face, there are years of colors to grind, wooden panels to prepare, and gold leaf to lay.
You can leave the workshop whenever sleep finds you. The work will still be there in the morning.
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Tonight: We enter a modest painter's workshop in fifteenth-century Florence and follow a young apprentice through the ordinary routines of learning his trade. There are pigments made from earth and precious stones, brushes fashioned from squirrel hair…
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