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Giotto’s O. Tradition holds that the great Italian artist Giotto di Bondone was a shepherd boy when discovered by the Floren- tine painter Giovanni Cimabue. While serving his apprentice- ship to Cimabue, he was approached by a messenger of the pope, who had been sent all over Italy to find artists to work on a new church. Giotto was asked to submit a drawing that could be shown to the pope as evidence of his talent and with a single flourish of his brush he drew a perfect circle on a panel, Giotto’s O being proof enough for the pope. |