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Cimabue

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Ci·ma·bu·e  (chmä-b), Giovanni Originally Cenni di Pepo. 1240?-1302?
Italian painter trained in the Byzantine style and considered the first master of the Florentine school.
Cimabue (Italian) [tʃimaˈbuːe]
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(Biographies / Cimabue, Giovanni (?1240-?1302) M, Italian, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Giovanni (dʒoˈvanni). ?1240-?1302, Italian painter of the Florentine school, who anticipated the movement, led by Giotto, away from the Byzantine tradition in art towards a greater naturalism
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Noun1.CimabueCimabue - painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302)
Giovanni Cimabue


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And I have seen the aged Giotto, and he in turn was pupil to Cimabue, before whom there was no art in Italy, for the Greeks were brought to paint the chapel of the Gondi at Florence.
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