Botticelli (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Botticelli The boy was born in 1447; in early youth he showed the same dislike of learning as nearly all his brethren in art, down to the great Michelangelo. Reading and writing became more of a torment to him the longer he tried to learn, and when his father found that the boy would never 'control his wandering thoughts sufficiently to do any good at school, he gave up the attempt in despair, and apprenticed him to a goldsmith. But young Sandro meant to be a painter, and it was not till they made him a pupil of Fra Filippo of the Carmine that his restless spirit found peace. He de voted himself with his whole soul to the new art, and thus earned the affection of his famous master, while he soon,-according to Vasari, went far beyond anything that had ever been expected of him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.