Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · Boston, Ticknor and company · leaf 62
in Florence, in1240. He was of noble family, andhis parents allowed him to follow hisinclination for art, until at last he painted the Madonna of theChurch of Santa Maria Novella, which has always been, and mustcontinue to be, a work of great interest. This was done when theartist was thirty years… … PORTRAIT OF CIMABUE. 44 STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS. with intense interest, and all the more because he would allow no ourto see what he was painting. At length it happened that Charles ofAnjou passed through Florence on his way to his kingdom of Naples.Of course the noble Florentines did all in…
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