The leap II - making a splash

In the late 13th century, Pope Benedict sent a courtier to Tuscany to check out the art scene and recruit an artist to do some work at St Peter’s. The courtier collected drawings from the greatest masters in Sienna and Florence and one morning went into the workshop of Giotto. When asked for a small drawing to show “the big guy”, the artist dipped a pen in red, braced his arm against his side, and in one clean motion of his hand made a perfect circle. “It is too little and too much,” he told the courtier, who, despite suspecting he was being duped, included it with the other drawings when he presented the collection in Rome.