Cimabue
[chee-mah-boo-e]
- Gio·van·ni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/, Cenni di Pepo, c1240–1302?, Italian painter and mosaicist.
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To Cimabue succeeded his pupil, the famous Giotto, who died in 1337.
Cimabue, the reviver of painting, received instruction from the Greeks.
It cannot be proved that a single picture attributed to Cimabue was painted by him.
The Story of ParisThomas Okey
Cimabue revolutionized painting, and then "the cry was Giotto's."
Stray Studies from England and ItalyJohn Richard Greene
The circumstances of the finding of Giotto by Cimabue are well known.
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2)John Ruskin
Cimabue
- 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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