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Giotto and Cimabue:
Told to me in February 2000 by Phil Zuchman, fellow artist.
One day, Cimabue was walking in the fields and he saw a young shepherd boy, drawing in the dirt, with a sharpened stick. He thought the drawing was quite good, so he invited the young man to come to his studio to be an apprentice. The young man agreed. His name was Giotto.After a while, young Giotto's eye had developed, and his interest in nature had grown. One day, as a prank, he did a drawing of a house fly on the leg of one of the master's plaster casts.
A bit later, Cimabue came out to begin the day's activities, and as he addressed the apprentices, he waved at the "fly" trying to shoo it away. He tried a second time, and when it did not move, slowly bent down to study the creature.
On close examination, he saw that it was a drawing. "Very good, excellent!" he mused. "Now- who did it!" he said with an ominous tone.
No one would admit to it, so he said- "No, really, tell me who you are, and I'll congatulate you..." So Giotto stepped forward, and the master slapped his face saying "congratulatione!"
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