00:00This bio was taken from The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
00:08by Giorgio Vasari, first published in 1912.
00:14The language has been modernized and updated for current times.
00:21It is narrated in a style which is conducive for sleep.
00:27Let's begin.
00:33The Artist Giovanni Simipiou, Painter of Florence
00:42Amid the endless flood of disasters that had devastated Italy, not only had countless buildings
00:50been ruined, but the entire tradition of skilled craftsmanship had nearly vanished.
00:57Then, by the will of God, in the city of Florence, in the year 1240, Giovanni Simipiou was born.
01:12Giovanni was born into a noble family of the time, and he would become the first to bring
01:20light back to the art of painting.
01:26As a boy, Simipiou showed a sharp and lively intelligence.
01:32His father sent him to study grammar at the convent of Santa Maria Novella, under a relative who taught
01:41the novices.
01:44However, instead of focusing on his lessons, Simipiou spent his days drawing on books, papers, and anywhere else he could.
01:57He drew figures of men, horses, houses, and all kinds of imagined scenes.
02:08Nature had clearly drawn him to this path, and fortune favored him.
02:13He came to his wife and his son with a wife, and there have been a wife and her son
02:13with a bishop.
02:13His father was his father, the man's father, to be a man, and after the man did he was born.
02:13He was a man of the man who was a man named earth, and he was born.
02:14in the year in the month of Africa.
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