Cimabue
Italian artist (1240-1302) · Artists · Died at 62
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Something wrong?The Florentine who cracked the Byzantine shell. Cimabue painted figures with weight and shadow in an age when gold-ground flatness was the rule, opening a door medieval Italy hadn't known was locked.
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Giovanni Cimabue
Asciano, museo di palazzo corboli, int., sala delle 4 stagioni con affreschi attr. a Cristoforo di Bindoccio e Meo di Pero, XIV sec. autunno
Asciano, museo di palazzo corboli, int., sala di aristotele con affreschi attr. a Cristoforo di Bindoccio e Meo di Pero, XIV sec. 02
Asciano, museo di palazzo corboli, int., sala di aristotele con affreschi attr. a Cristoforo di Bindoccio e Meo di Pero, XIV sec. 05
Asciano, museo di palazzo corboli, int., sala di aristotele con affreschi attr. a Cristoforo di Bindoccio e Meo di Pero, XIV sec. 11
Asciano, museo di palazzo corboli, int., sala di aristotele con affreschi attr. a Cristoforo di Bindoccio e Meo di Pero, XIV sec. 12
Cappellone degli spagnoli, via veritas 04About this person
Giovanni Cimabue worked in Florence around 1240 to 1302, painting and designing mosaics under the long shadow of Byzantine convention. He drew heavily from those eastern models but began to bend them: his figures carried more lifelike proportion, his shading suggested actual volume instead of symbol. Giorgio Vasari later named him the teacher of Giotto, the man who lit the Proto-Renaissance, though earlier sources have made scholars wary of taking that lineage as fact. What remains is the pivot itself - a painter who leaned into the stiffness of his inheritance and found give.
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