Cimabue (Italian pronunciation: [tʃimaˈbuːe]; Ecclesiastical Latin: [t͡ʃiˈmaː.bu.e]; c. 1240 – 1302), also known as Cenni di Pepo or Cenni di Pepi, was an Italian painter and designer of mosaics …

As the foremost Tuscan painter and mosaicist of his generation, Cimabue took the lead role in the transition from the medieval to modern era of Italian art.

Giovanni Cimabue (/ ˌtʃiːməˈbuːeɪ / CHEE-mə-BOO-ay, [1] Italian: [tʃimaˈbuːe]; c. 1240 – 1302), [2] also known as Cenni di Pepo[3] or Cenni di Pepi, [4][5] was an Italian painter and designer of …

Cimabue (born before 1251—died 1302) was a painter and mosaicist, the last great Italian artist in the Byzantine style, which had dominated early medieval painting in Italy.

The narrative vitality and liberty deployed by Cimabue in this work of shimmering colours make it an important and heretofore unsuspected precedent to Duccio’s Maestà, a masterpiece of …

Jan 2, 2025 · For centuries, the Italian painter Cimabue has been overshadowed by his more famous pupil Giotto, who—with his attention to naturalism and perspective—is widely credited …

Jun 5, 2024 · Cimabue is today credited for instigating a move towards naturalism in art, shifting away from the rigid and stylized forms that defined much of medieval art. His frescoes are a …

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Mar 3, 2025 · To the shock the art history community, that’s what exactly happened in 2019. One of Cimabue’s 700-year-old gold-ground panels was found hanging over a hotpot in an elderly …

Virtually nothing is known about the life of Cenni di Pepo, better known as Cimabue (c. 1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades …