Download or read book A Boy Named Giotto written by Paolo Guarnieri and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 1999 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight-year-old Giotto the shepherd boy confesses his dream of becoming an artist to the painter Cimabue, who teaches him how to make marvelous pigments from minerals, flowers, and eggs and takes him on as his pupil.