Cimabue
Americannoun
noun
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Among them: paintings by Cimabue, Van Eyck, Memling, Liotard, Reynolds and Gainsborough, as well as two of the Frick’s best-loved canvases — John Constable’s “The White Horse,” and Ingres’s portrait of the Comtesse d’Haussonville.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2014
A strong earthquake in 1997 heavily damaged the basilica, and restorers took years to complete the restoration on some of the Cimabue and Giotto frescoes.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2011
The gaunt and gushing Mrs Cimabue Brown; the ingratiating poet Jellaby Postlethwaite; the pathetic painter Maudle; the aesthetically aspirational Jack Spratts .
From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2011
It has been established that Giotto was born in Tuscany around 1267 and studied with Cimabue, one of the great painters of his day.
From The Guardian • Oct. 23, 2010
After Cimabue the most important name at Florentine in the Thirteenth Century is that of his friend, Gaddo Gaddi, whose years of life correspond almost exactly with those of his great contemporary.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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