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Stories of art and artists (1887)

Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · Boston, Ticknor and company · leaf 67

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g said: Giotto, if I were you I would leave workand rest. So would I, Sire, if I were you, said Giotto. When the same King asked him to paint a picture of his kingdom,Giotto drew an as^ bearing a saddle, on which were a crown andsceptre; on the ground beside the ass was another saddle, with a 48… … giottos campanile, ok bell-tower, in Florence. Giotto was a great architect as well as a great painter, for he it waswho made all the designs, and even some of the working models forthe beautiful bell-tower or campanile of Florence, near the cathedral STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS. 49 and baptistery.…

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