Cimabue

[ chee-mah-boo-e ]

noun

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

Cimabue

/ tʃimaˈbuːe /

noun

1. CimabueGiovanni?1240?1302MItalianARTS AND CRAFTS: painter 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

Example Sentences

No noted painter arose until Cimabue, in the middle of the thirteenth century.

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The transepts are terminated by two apsidal chapels with mosaics in the semi-domes said to be designed by Cimabue.

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He painted in the dry, Gothic style of the immediate followers of Cimabue.

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The windows of painted glass are of the very first order, and of surpassing beauty, nearly entire, and attributed to Cimabue.

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He had worked with Cimabue, the father of Italian art, and had been chum of Giotto, to whom all cherubim and seraphim trace.

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