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Cimabue
Italian b1240 - d1302
Cimabue Location
Italian painter and mosaicist. His nickname means either bull-head or possibly one who crushes the views of others (It. cimare: top, shear, blunt), an interpretation matching the tradition in commentaries on Dante that he was not merely proud of his work but contemptuous of criticism. Filippo Villani and Vasari assigned him the name Giovanni, but this has no historical foundation. He may be considered the most dramatic of those artists influenced by contemporary Byzantine painting through which antique qualities were introduced into Italian work in the late 13th century. His interest in Classical Roman drapery techniques and in the spatial and dramatic achievements of such contemporary sculptors as Nicola Pisano, however, distinguishes him from other leading members of this movement. As a result of his influence on such younger artists as Duccio and Giotto, the forceful qualities of his work and its openness to a wide range of sources, Cimabue appears to have had a direct personal influence on the subsequent course of Florentine, Tuscan and possibly Roman painting.
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Painting ID:: 6046
St Luke (detail) sd
1280-83
Fresco, 450 x 900 cm
Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
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Painting ID:: 6047
St Luke (detail) gh
1280-83
Fresco, 450 x 900 cm
Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
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Painting ID:: 6048
Crucifix fdbdf
1268-71
Tempera on wood, 336 x 267 cm
San Domenico, Arezzo
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Painting ID:: 6049
Crucifix (detail) dfg
1268-71
Tempera on wood, 45 x 28 cm, (full painting: 336 x 267 cm)
San Domenico, Arezzo
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Painting ID:: 6050
Crucifix (detail) fgdrjm
1268-71
Tempera on wood, 45 x 28 cm, (full painting: 336 x 267 cm)
San Domenico, Arezzo
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Cimabue
Italian b1240 - d1302
Cimabue Location
Italian painter and mosaicist. His nickname means either bull-head or possibly one who crushes the views of others (It. cimare: top, shear, blunt), an interpretation matching the tradition in commentaries on Dante that he was not merely proud of his work but contemptuous of criticism. Filippo Villani and Vasari assigned him the name Giovanni, but this has no historical foundation. He may be considered the most dramatic of those artists influenced by contemporary Byzantine painting through which antique qualities were introduced into Italian work in the late 13th century. His interest in Classical Roman drapery techniques and in the spatial and dramatic achievements of such contemporary sculptors as Nicola Pisano, however, distinguishes him from other leading members of this movement. As a result of his influence on such younger artists as Duccio and Giotto, the forceful qualities of his work and its openness to a wide range of sources, Cimabue appears to have had a direct personal influence on the subsequent course of Florentine, Tuscan and possibly Roman painting.
. Related Artists to Cimabue: | Girolamo Parmigianino | Rudolf Wacker | David Davies | john florio | WATTEAU, Louis-Joseph |
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