Photographs and illustrations profile the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Italy and show what the Basilica looked like before it was destroyed in an earthquake on September 26, 1997.
Eight-year-old Giotto the shepherd boy confesses his dream of becoming an artist to the painter Cimabue, who teaches him how to make marvelous pigments from minerals, flowers, and eggs and takes him on as his pupil.
