Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918 · New York : Scribner's · leaf 270
e child of eightor ten who was learning the rudiments of thecraft was called an apprentice; the youth whoaided in the execution of important commissions,an assistant (companion would be the literal trans-lation of the Italian word); and the fully fledgedyoung artist who had begun to fly alone, a… … THE FLORENTINE ATITIST great competition for some important civic monu-ment, like the doors of the Baptistery or the fa9adeof the cathedral, to which not only Italians, butartists from beyond the Alps were invited to senddesigns; but these were very rare, and by the endof the fifteenth century had…
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