One story says that when Verrocchio saw Leonardo's addition to the painting, he was so amazed by his student's skill, that he said he would never paint again.

VOA: special.2010.09.15

He asked them to describe the painting to someone who cannot see.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

Perhaps the creator of Indiana Jones was inspired by what he saw in the painting.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

And Neptune with a Trident is helping lay the trans-Atlantic cable which was just being laid when he was painting this."

VOA: special.2010.01.27

He is standing in front of a bold and colorful painting similar to those created by the abstract-expressionist artist Jackson Pollock.

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He showed a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's famous "Mona Lisa" painting to one hundred school children from poor city neighborhoods.

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The surface of his painting, "Blue Square." is covered in extremely thick blue paint which he applied using his fingers.

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He was famous for painting flowers,buildings and the natural environment in a way that explored color and the changing effects of light.

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Although he started painting in New York and other eastern states, he began traveling west in eighteen fifty-nine.

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He was influenced at the age of nine by a painting in his school of the highest mountains on the seven continents.

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But he spent the rest of his life painting pictures of the west and writing about it.

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Around fourteen seventy-five he was asked to draw an angel in Verrocchio's painting "Baptism of Christ."

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He began painting about social issues as his artistic talent developed and his work changed.

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One religious painting he never finished was called "Adoration of the Magi".

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However,years later he returned to Washington to develop his skills in painting.

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He hoped to go to Europe to study painting.

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He began by teaching basic methods of painting.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

And Alan Lomax had somevery compelling and really engaging stories to tell about actually painting himself up in blackface so that he could go into black communities, so that some of the whites wouldn't single him out and beat him up or whatever."

VOA: special.2010.01.18

"So he did it!" "If you look at the Norman Rockwell painting of Christmas,that's my memory.

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