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

There, in a Madonna Assunta carved in wood and plaster, and daintily painted as it seems he loved to do, you have perhaps the most charming work that has come from his bottega.

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

And those who believe in spirits should say sincerely: “‘Spirito del Ponte Vecchio, Guardami la mia bottega!

From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

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