Cimabue

[chee-mah-boo-e]

noun

Gio·van·ni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/, Cenni di Pepo, c1240–1302?, Italian painter and mosaicist.

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Historical Examples of cimabue

To Cimabue succeeded his pupil, the famous Giotto, who died in 1337.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327
Various
Cimabue, the reviver of painting, received instruction from the Greeks.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327
Various
It cannot be proved that a single picture attributed to Cimabue was painted by him.
The Story of Paris
Thomas Okey
Cimabue revolutionized painting, and then "the cry was Giotto's."
Stray Studies from England and Italy
John Richard Greene
The circumstances of the finding of Giotto by Cimabue are well known.
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2)
John Ruskin

British Dictionary definitions for cimabue

Cimabue

noun

Giovanni (dʒoˈvanni). ?1240–?1302, Italian painter of the Florentine school, who anticipated the movement, led by Giotto, away from the Byzantine tradition in art towards a greater naturalism

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