GIOTTO, THE PAINTER. 35

 

gon should go and live with Cimabue.
In a few days he went, and com-
menced his studies as a painter.

The pupil improved rapidly. When
he had been with Cimabue a year or
two, he became so well acquainted
with the art of painting, as to aston-
ish every one who knew him. It was
about this time that he played a trick
upon his master, which, perhaps, more
than any other one thing, tended to
establish his reputation as a genius.
The trick was this: His master had
been engaged for some days on a por-
trait of a gentleman. One day, when