Cimabue

American  

[chee-mah-boo-e] / ˌtʃi mɑˈbu ɛ /

noun

1. Giovanni Cenni di Pepo, c1240–1302?, Italian painter and mosaicist.

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Cimabue British  

/ tʃimaˈbuːe /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

Among them: paintings by Cimabue, Van Eyck, Memling, Liotard, Reynolds and Gainsborough, as well as two of the Frick’s best-loved canvases — John Constable’s “The White Horse,” and Ingres’s portrait of the Comtesse d’Haussonville.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2014

A strong earthquake in 1997 heavily damaged the basilica, and restorers took years to complete the restoration on some of the Cimabue and Giotto frescoes.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2011

The gaunt and gushing Mrs Cimabue Brown; the ingratiating poet Jellaby Postlethwaite; the pathetic painter Maudle; the aesthetically aspirational Jack Spratts .

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2011

It has been established that Giotto was born in Tuscany around 1267 and studied with Cimabue, one of the great painters of his day.

From The Guardian • Oct. 23, 2010

Gaddo Gaddi was, according to Vasari, an intimate friend of Cimabue, and afterwards of Giotto.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various