An outline history of painting for beginners and students, with complete indexes and numerous full-page illustrations (1902)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, F.A. Stokes · leaf 78
a shcphcrd-boywho was drawing a portrait of one of his sheep on a flatrock, by means of a pointed bit of slate for a pencil. Thesketch was so good that Cimabue offered to take the boyto Florence, and teach him to paint. The boys fithcr con-sented, and henceforth the little Giotto lived with… … ^^M;mM.^Mm^:^sc&^£^:z. - ■•■ ■ :i Fig. 29—Portrait of Dante, painted by Giotto. 5 66 PAINTING. by Giotto of which we have any knowledge. In it werethe portraits of Dante, Latini, and several others. Thispicture was painted on a wall of the Podesta at Florence,and when Dante was exiled from that…
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