摘要
不过契马部埃这么有名,却不是源于他的绘画成就,而主要是因为他的一个学生,这个学生后来成了一个伟大的画家。据说,契马部埃有一天在离佛罗伦萨不远的乡间漫步,无意间看到一个牧童,这个牧童一边放羊,一边用一块尖尖的石头在一块石板上画羊。契马部埃上前去看了看,对男孩的绘画感到很惊讶,于是问牧童的名字。男孩回答说:“乔托。”乔托是安布罗乔托的简称。
But it is not for what he did himself that Cimabue is famous.He is known chiefly as the teacher of some one who became a much greater artist.Cimabue was walking one day in the country,not far from Florence,when he came upon a shepherd boy tending his flocks.The boy,while watching his sheep,was drawing pictures of them on a piece of slate with a sharp stone.Cimabue,looking over the boy's shoulder,was amazed at the picture he saw and he asked the boy his name."Giotto,"the boy replied,which was the short pet name for Ambrogiotto.
