Title: A boy named Giotto
First published: 1999
Description: Eight-year-old Giotto the shepherd boy confesses his dream of becoming an artist to the painter Cimabue, who teaches him how to make marvelous pigments from minerals, flowers, and eggs and takes him on as his pupil.
Subjects: Fiction, Shepherds, Juvenile fiction, Artists, Children's fiction, Italy, history, fiction, Artists, fiction
Places: Italy
People: Giotto (1266?-1337), Cimabue
LC classification: PZ7.G93415 Bo 1999