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 (chē′mä-bo͞o′ĕ), Giovanni Originally Cenni di Pepo. 1240?-1302?
Italian painter trained in the Byzantine style and considered the first master of the Florentine school.
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Cimabue

(Italian tʃimaˈbuːe)
n
(Biography) 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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Ci•ma•bu•e

(ˌtʃi məˈbu eɪ)

n.
Giovanni, (Cenni di Pepo), c1240–1302?, Italian painter and mosaicist.
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Noun1.Cimabue - painter of the Florentine schoolCimabue - painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302)
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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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The imitation of insect life was a signal of artistic invention: Vasari's life of Giotto retells an anecdote in which the artist, studying as a child with Cimabue, painted on the nose of one of Cimabue's figures a fly so realistic that the older artist attempted to brush it off.
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He breaks down this development into three distinct periods: in the first age, beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, art was reborn in Florence through the rediscovery of rudimentary technical and emotional realism; in the second, beginning with Masaccio, Brunelleschi, and others, art progressed toward increasing naturalism and fluency; in the third age, beginning with Leonardo and ending with Michelangelo, art reached its "perfection." It is a hierarchical and historiographic model of progress in the arts that has endured down to the present, one that is fully reflected in how art is curated and displayed in museums today.
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One can imagine Baldinucci, author of Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua (Notes on teachers of drawing from Cimabue until now) and an amateur artist himself, collecting drawings to show Leopoldo while holding some back for himself.
Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer
From left: Untitled, 1963-70; Homage to Cimabue Study, 1968.
Sorel Etrog: Edel Assanti
[iii] Vasari G (1550) Le Vite de' piu Eccellenti Architetti, Pittori, et Scultori Italiani, da Cimabue Insino a' Tempi Nostri.
Leonardo da Vinci's world map
In Arezzo, besides architectural monuments, there are noteworthy works of art by Donatello, Cimabue, Piero della Francesca, Giorgio Vasari, and Pietro Annigoni, among others; there is a gold museum that speaks to the city's long involvement in the jewelry-making industry.
Suzette R. Grillot and Zach P. Messitte (eds.). Buon Giorno, Arezzo: A Postcard from Tuscany
E fato que, como bem lembra Andre Malraux, "um crucifixo romanico nao era, de inicio, uma escultura; a Madona de Cimabue nao era, de inicio, um quadro; nem sequer a Atena de Fidias era, de inicio, uma estatua".
GRAFFITI AND THE PRESERVATION OF ITS INTEGRITY: THE SKIN OF THE CITY AND THE "DROIT AU RESPECT" IN BRAZILIAN AND COMPARATIVE LAW/O GRAFITE E A PRESERVACAO DE SUA INTEGRIDADE: A PELE DA CIDADE E O "DROIT AU RESPECT" NO DIREITO BRASILEIRO E COMPARADO
Pode dizer-se que Joao Marcos "recria uma iconografia de raiz intemporal e essencialista, na tradicao iconologica protocrista, com passagens eletivas pela iconologia bizantina, por Giotto e por Cimabue" (Silva, 2001), ao mesmo tempo que se reconhece que
D. Joao Marcos: Bishop and painter of altarpieces today/D. Joao Marcos: Bispo e pintor de retabulos hoje

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