bottega
Americannoun
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bottegas,
plural
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botteghe
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bottega
1895–1900; < Italian: literally, shop < Latin apothēca; see apothecary
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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
When about twenty years old Leonardo was a fellow-student with Perugino in the bottega of good old Andrea del Verrocchio.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Elbert Hubbard
"Our lord the duke!" shouted the people standing in the street; and Ser Benedetto walked out with stately tread to receive the honor of his master's visit to his bottega.
From Bimbi by Ouida
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
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
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
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
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