The humour of Italy; . derstand, throughtheir abbess, that they should prefer to see his master,and not always him. To this Buonamico answered good-humouredly that when the master came he would let themknow, understanding, nevertheless, how little confidencethey had in him. Then he took a stool, and placed upon itanother, and on the top he put a pitcher or water-jug, andfastened a hood on the handle, and covered up the rest ofthe jug with a cloak, fastening it well behind the tables;and having fixed a pencil in the spout of the jug, he wentaway. The nuns coming again to see the picture through
The humour of Italy; . derstand, throughtheir abbess, that they should prefer to see his master,and not always him. To this Buonamico answered good-humouredly that when the master came he would let themknow, understanding, nevertheless, how little confidencethey had in him. Then he took a stool, and placed upon itanother, and on the top he put a pitcher or water-jug, andfastened a hood on the handle, and covered up the rest ofthe jug with a cloak, fastening it well behind the tables;and having fixed a pencil in the spout of the jug, he wentaway. The nuns coming again to see the picture through ahole that they had made in the screen, saw the supposedmaster in his fine attire, and not doubting that he wasworking with all his might, doing very different work fromwhat that boy did, for several days were quite content. At 24 ITALIAN HUMOUR. last, being desirous to see what fine things the master haddone in the last fortnight (during which time Buonamicohad not been there at all), one night, thinking he was gone,. they went to see his picture, and were overcome with confu-sion when one more bold than the rest detected the solemnmaster, who during the fortnight had done no work at , acknowledging that he had only treated them as they THE PAINTER AND THE PICTURE. 25 deserved, and that the work which he had done was worthyof praise, they sent their steward to call Buonamico back;and he with great laughter went back to his work, lettingthem see the difference between men and water-jugs, and thatit does not always do to judge a mans work by his in a few days he finished a picture with which theywere greatly pleased, except that the faces seemed to themto be too pale and wan. Buonamico having heard this, andknowing that the abbess had some wine which was the bestin Florence, told them that if they wished to remedy thedefect, it could only be done by mixing the colours withgood wine; and then if the cheeks were touched with thecolour, they would become red and
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