The Workshop and the Shadow In the narrow streets of Florence, the young apprentice Jacopo di Giovanni di Francesco began his life in the studio of Andrea del Sarto. He stayed there, working alongside the master, until the end of 1521. There was a certain independence in his hand even then, a way of moving the brush that suggested he was not merely a follower. He moved through the circles of the city, finding himself among the craftsmen and the men who shaped the visual life of the Florentine court, though he often found himself on the outside of the most significant commissions. His path w…