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The two churches of Vaccarizza, dark and unclean structures, stand side by side, and I was shown through them by their respective priests, Greek and Catholic, who walked arm in arm in friendly wise, and meekly smiled at a running fire of sarcastic observations on the part of another citizen directed against the "bottega" in general -- the _shop, _ as the church is sometimes irreverently called.
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His "bottega" was really a shop where any one might order a work of art, or of artisanship, and he gave as much attention to painting a banner for a procession as to composing an altar-piece.
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I would that I were a painter and could invite naked women to lounge about in my bottega under the guise of labor.
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In this story, set in 1409, we find that Manetto had worked in the bottega of Maestro Pellegrino in Via Terma.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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There, in a Madonna Assunta carved in wood and plaster, and daintily painted as it seems he loved to do, you have perhaps the most charming work that has come from his bottega.
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Verrocchio was the master of Lorenzo di Credi and of Leonardo, while, as it is said, Perugino passed through his bottega.
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Timoteo Viti, we hear of Raphael first in the bottega of the greatest of the Umbrian painters, Perugino, at Perugia.
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Giorgione after passing through Bellini's bottega.
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Rovezzano, you may see the sculptors at work in an open bottega by the roadside, the rough-hewn marble standing here and there in many sizes and shapes, the chips and fragments strewing the highway.
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There in that fantastic bottega he must have met Fra Bartolommeo, who later influenced him so deeply.
oroboros commented on the word bottega
Studio of a master artist where apprentices are trained.
July 11, 2010