Knights of the Art; stories of the Italian painters by Amy Steedman
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with such a boy, I wonder?'
Then in despair the poor man decided to send Sandro to a neighbour's workshop, to see if perhaps his hands would work better than his head. The name of this neighbour was Botticelli, and he was a goldsmith, and a very excellent master of his art. He agreed to receive Sandro as his pupil, so it happened that the boy was called by his master's name, and was known ever after as Sandro Botticelli. Sandro worked for some time with his master, and quickly learned to draw designs for the goldsmith's work. In those days painters and goldsmiths worked a great deal together, and Sandro often saw designs for pictures and listened to the talk of the artists who came to his master's shop. Gradually, as he looked and listened, his mind was made up. He would become a painter. All his restless longings and day dreams turned to this. All the music that floated in the air as he listened to the birds' song, the gentle dancing motion of the wind among the trees, all the colours of the flowers, and the graceful twinings of the rose-stems--all these he would catch and weave into his pictures. Yes, he would learn to painst music and motion, and then he would be |
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