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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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

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

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

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

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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