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The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages (1880)

Sandhurst, Phillip T · N.Y., Worthington · leaf 68

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craft till he was twenty-four years of age, when,having in the mean time evinced great cleverness in taking the likenesses of thefrequenters of Ghirlandajo the elders shop, the future painter abandoned the gold-smiths trade for art pure and simple. He soon vindicated the wisdom of the stepwhich he… … y M© ©1=1 H ——i GHIRLANDAJO. 39 wards to be so glorious ; but his greatest works were done in the prime of hismanhood, in his native city, Florence, where he was chosen as the teacher of MichaelAngelo, who was apprenticed to Ghirlandajo for three years. While still in the flower of his age and…

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