Cenni di Pepo, called Cimabue (c.1240 - after 1302), born in Florence, was the most famous Italian painter of his generation. He is mainly known as the teacher of Giotto, whom, according to the legend, Cimabue found when the latter was working as a shepherd, drawing a lamb on a flat stone, and took him to his workshop in Florence. Cimabue was the first artist to move away from the stylized and rigid conventions of...
c.1270. Tempera on panel. Louvre, Paris, France.
1280. Tempera on panel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
c.1290. Tempera on wood. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Read Note.
c.1300. Tempera on panel. Santa Maria dei Servi, Bologna, Italy.
Tempera on panel. Palazzo Pitti, Merediana, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
Fresco. Basilica in San Francesco, Assissi, Italy. Read Note.
Fresco. Basilica in San Francesco, Assissi, Italy. Read Note.
Fresco. Basilica in San Francesco, Assissi, Italy.
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