bottega

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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.

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

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The master recognised his talent, and took him from his father's cottage to the Florentine bottega, much as young Haydn was taken by Renter to S. Stephen's at Vienna.

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

He prepared a wooden model and exposed it, after the fashion of those times, for criticism in his bottega; and the usual difference of opinion arose among the citizens of Como concerning its merits.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes