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Definition of Cimabue
1. Noun. Painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cimabue
Literary usage of Cimabue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"(Cimabue thought himself the master of painters, Giotto took from him the glory
and relegated him to oblivion.) From this verse of Dante, which preserved ..."
2. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"Also the chapel in SM Novella, where they are said to have painted, is contemporary
with the church which was erected in 1279, when Cimabue was thirty- nine ..."
3. History of Painting by Karl Woermann (1880)
"Vasari makes both the sculptor Niccola Pisano and the painter Cimabue at first
... Vasari begins his biographies with the Florentine Giovanni Cimabue, ..."
4. Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari (1897)
"But Cimabue, instead of devoting himself to letters, con- In the annotations to
these volumes all references to ..."
5. A History of Painting in Italy, Umbria, Florence and Siena, from the Second by Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1903)
"These three pieces, assigned to Cimabue, are by some follower of Duccio of Siena.
... Two panels in the Munich Gallery, which are attributed to Cimabue, ..."
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