bottega

A more likely tale has him haunting Cimabue's Florentine bottega until the painter made him an apprentice.

From Time Magazine Archive

Papa Guardi set up a bottega, or combination studio and art shop, in an alley on the wrong side of the Grand Canal.

From Time Magazine Archive

His first son, Gian Antonio, became master of the bottega and a member of the Venetian Academy long before Francesco, who was 14 years younger.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was in this monastic bottega that Fra Bartolommeo, in concert with his friend Albertinelli, worked for the benefit of the convent after the year 1506.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds

I mean that of the Madonna degli Greci, a pompous image from Byzantium, which proceeded undoubtedly from the bottega of Saint Luke.

From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett

At last count, in an eleven-block stretch of Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, there were eleven Italian botteghe, each one apparently striving to be the most exclusive shop on its block.

From Time Magazine Archive

I do not miss the dirt and stink of the botteghe or the sink holes of Florence, Milan, and Rome.

From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

Of these, many notable examples were produced in the botteghe of the two rival artist families, the Bellini and the Vivarini.

From Child-life in Art by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll

The wool-workers had ceased their toil, the artists had left their botteghe, the markets were deserted, and all Florence forgathered in the Piazza to welcome "I Signori di Firenze!"

From The Tragedies of the Medici by Edgcumbe Staley

Amongst the thousand arteries in which the life blood of the Renaissance coursed in all its fulness, none were so busy or so important as the "botteghe" of the artists.

From Fra Bartolommeo by Flora Kendrick