'Quiet dignified saints and spacious landscapes,'
Sta. Maddalena de Pazzi, Florence.

ST. JAMES. BY ANDREA DEL SARTO.
'The kind strong hand of the saint is placed lovingly
beneath the little chin,'
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

CHERUB. BY GIOV. BELLINI,
'Giovanni's angels are little human boys with grave sweet faces,'
Church of the Frari, Venice.

ST. TRYPHONIUS AND THE BASILISK. BY CARPACCIO,
'The little boy saint has folded his hands together and
looks upward in prayer,'
S. Giorgio Schiavari, Venice.

THE LITTLE VIRGIN. BY TITIAN,
'The little maid is all alone,'
Academia, Venice.

THE LITTLE ST. JOHN. BY VERONESE,
THE MADONNA ENTHRONED.
'The little St. John with the skin thrown over his bare
shoulder and the cross in his hand,'
Academia, Florence.

IN MONOCHROME

RELIEF IN MARBLE BY GIOTTO,
'The shepherd sitting under his tent, with the sheep in front,'
Campanile, Florence.

DRAWING BY MASACCIO,
'His models were ordinary Florentine youths,'
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

DRAWING BY GHIRLANDAIO,
'The men of the market-place,'
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

DRAWING BY LEONARDO DA VINCI,
'He loved to draw strange monsters,'
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

DRAWING BY RAPHAEL,
'Round-limbed rosy children, half human, half divine,'
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

DRAWING BY MICHELANGELO,
'A terrible head of a furious old man,'
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

DRAWING BY GIORGIONE,
'A man in Venetian dress helping two women to mount one
of the niches of a marble palace,'
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

DRAWING BY TINTORETTO,
'The head of a Venetian boy, such as Tintoretto met daily
among the fisher-folk of Venice,'
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

GIOTTO

It was more than six hundred years ago that a little peasant baby was
born in the small village of Vespignano, not far from the beautiful
city of Florence, in Italy. The baby's father, an honest, hard-working
countryman, was called Bondone, and the name he gave to his little son
was Giotto.

Life was rough and hard in that country home, but the peasant baby grew
into a strong, hardy boy, learning early what cold and hunger meant.
The hills which surrounded the village were grey and bare, save where
the silver of the olive-tr