An outline history of painting for young people and students (1883)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, White, Stokes, & Allen · leaf 80
no he saw a shepherd-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 father con-sented, and henceforth the little Giotto lived… … Fig. 29—Portrait of Dante, painted by Giotto. 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 city his portrait wascovered with…
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