Here again Ruskin played a crucial role. He popularized the views of Alexis-François Rio—a contemporary French writer—who ...

For centuries, the Italian painter Cimabue has been overshadowed by his more famous pupil Giotto, who—with his attention to naturalism and perspective—is widely credited with ushering in the ...

Cimabue is the pseudonym of artist Cenni di Pepo, born in Florence around the year 1240. He is known to have been the discoverer and master of Giotto, widely regarded as one of the greatest ...

Appreciation for Cimabue by later generations has been further compromised both by the paltry number of surviving works by his hand and by the glaring contrast between the pristine condition of Giotto ...

Assisi, a medieval city built on a hill, is the birthplace of Saint Francis, closely associated with the work of the Franciscan Order. Its medieval art masterpieces, such as the Basilica of San ...

“A New Look at Cimabue: ... Close to the “Maestà” we find “St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata” (c. 1298) by Giotto, who is thought to have worked in Cimabue’s studio.

Cimabue, “The Virgin Mary and the Christ Child enthroned by six angels, known as the Maestà” (c. 1280) on view in A New Look at Cimabue at the Louvre Museum, Paris (all photos Daniel Larkin ...

In a bold and thrilling argument, Roland Allen asserts that Renaissance painting began with Cimabue (and his student Giotto) because he was one of the first artists in Christian Europe to have ...