reserved up
to our own day.

This Cennino, in the first chapter of his said book, speaking of
himself, uses these very words: "I, Cennino di Drea Cennini, of Colle di
Valdelsa, was instructed in the said art for twelve years by Agnolo di
Taddeo of Florence, my master, who learnt the said art from Taddeo, his
father, who was held at baptism by Giotto and was his disciple for
four-and-twenty years; which Giotto transmuted the art of painting from
Greek into Latin, and brought it to the modern manner, and had it for
certain more perfected than anyone ever had it." These are the very
words of Cennino, to whom it appeared that even as those who translate
any work from Greek into Latin confer very great benefit on those who do
not understand Greek, so, too, did Giotto in transforming the art of
painting from a manner not understood or known by anyone, save perchance
as very rude, to a beautiful, facile, and very pleasing manner,
understood and known as good by all who have judgment and the least
grain of reason.

All these disciples of Agnolo did him very great honour, and he was
buried by his sons, to whom it is said that he left the sum of fifty
thousand florins or more, in S. Maria Novella, in the tomb that he
himself had made for himself and for his descendants, in the year of our
salvation 1387. The portrait of Agnolo, made by himself, is seen in the
Chapel of the Alberti, in S. Croce, beside a door in the scene wherein,
the Emperor Heraclius is bearing the Cross; it is painted in profile,
with a little beard, and with a rose-coloured cap on his head according
to the use of those times. He was not excellent in draughtsmanship, in
so far as is shown by some drawings by his hand that are in our book.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 23: A yellow-lake made from the unripe berries of the spin
cervino, a sort of brier.]

INDEX OF NAMES OF THE CRAFTSMEN MENTIONED IN VOLUME I

Aglaophon, xxxix

Agnolo (of Siena), _Life_, 97-105. 39

Agnolo di Lorenzo, 208

Agnolo Gaddi, _Life_, 217-223. 185, 186

Agobbio, Oderigi d', 79

Agostino (of Siena), _Life_, 97-105. 39

Aholiab, xxxviii

Alberti, Leon Batista, xli, 179

Alesso Baldovinetti, 4, 48

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, _Life_, 155-157

Andrea di Cione Orcagna, _Life_, 189-199

Andrea Pisano, _Life_, 123-131. 189

Andrea Tafi, _Life_, 47-51. 55, 56, 58, 135, 136, 145, 219

Angelico, Fra (Fra Giovanni da Fiesole), 162

Antonio (called Il Carota), 12