With apprentices to assist on production pieces, the artist has time to be purely creative.
After 1474 he apparently had his own workshop with numerous apprentices.
He sometimes works alone and sometimes with several apprentices.
Only a generation ago, there had been three Keepers, with apprentices in training.
With apprentices like these, it is no wonder the first group is so high-powered.
There was always "one thing" more with students and apprentices.
For a brief period, architects worked the old fashioned way, with their firms and apprentices.
They do not have a troupe of trained fleas, with apprentices in the wings waiting to take over.
That is the normal way with apprentices and masters.
I don't shake hands with apprentices' he used to say.