Cimabue

Cimabue ( * ca 1240; † ca 1302; Cenni di Pepo real name ) was a Florentine painter and mosaic artist, who came in as a discoverer and champion of Giotto in the history of art.

As one of the first of the early Renaissance to the formalism of Byzantine art breaking, he tried his hand at a more vivid image of people and objects.

Giorgio Vasari wrote in his Le vite the first biography of the painter.

Works (selection)

  • The Crucifix ( 1265 ) in the church of San Domenico in Arezzo
  • The crucifix (1287-1288) in Santa Croce (Florence) in Florence
  • The frescoes of the Passion of Christ, the Apocalypse and the lives Virgin Mary in the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi.

From the point of view of art criticism the fresco of the enthroned Virgin Mary ( Maestà ) with angels and Saint Francis from the Basilica of San Francesco shows the saint in the authentic and original representation.

  • Maestà di Santa Trinita from the church of Santa Trinita (Florence ) ( 1272-74 ), Uffizi, Florence
  • Mosaics of St. John the Evangelist (around 1302) in the Cathedral of Pisa
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