Squatting Rembrandt fragment protective female figure

“The foundation, the father of other arts” was how early writers described the art of Drawing; referring to a world of charm and refinement, not least, repository of the early stirrings of artistic creativity.
Trecciani bib: Cennino Cennini, Il libro dell’artere fers to the importance of drawing practice. (in the 16th century) Vasari and Leonardo da Vinci, and for generations onward, Drawing was viewed as a vocational material, acquired in the master’s workshop.