The Fine Art Of Procrastination
Money|June - July 2018

Trouble with deadlines? Easily distracted? Try turning to Leonardo da Vinci for inspiration.

Andrew Santella
The Fine Art Of Procrastination

IN CASE YOU THINK waiting on a coworker to finish an overdue assignment is a modern phenomenon, consider what happened 535 years ago in Milan. That was where the good friars of the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception asked Leonardo da Vinci to produce a painting of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child for the altar of their chapel.

With a naive optimism familiar to anyone who has ever made a living as a freelancer, Leonardo agreed to finish the project in seven months. Twenty-five years would pass before the painting was installed.

This story is from the June - July 2018 edition of Money.

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