bottega

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

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

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

There in that fantastic bottega he must have met Fra Bartolommeo, who later influenced him so deeply.

From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Hutton, Edward

All this time I had had not a mouthful of breakfast, and we betook ourselves to Doney's bottega to get a cup of coffee before going home.

From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus

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 Bartlett, Paul Alexander

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 Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

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 Kendrick, Flora

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 Staley, Edgcumbe