‘A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting’ Review: A Pivotal Pre-Renaissance Painter
A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory naturalism and narrative sense to his work in the 13th century.
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A Woman Almost Threw Out a Renaissance Painting of Jesus Worth $27 Million That Was Hung in Her Kitchen
The world of art held a history that was timeless and carried on the narrative for longer than any structure built. Throughout history, lost masterpieces resurfaced in attics, behind walls, and ...
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Woman Learns The ‘Fake’ Renaissance Painting She Kept Over Her Stove Was Actually A 700-Year-Old Masterpiece
The two other panels that makeup Cimabue’s Passion of the Christ polyptych include the Flagellation of Christ, which hangs in the Frick Collection in New York, and the Madonna and Child ...
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From kitchen wall to the Louvre: Cimabue show sheds new light on ‘father of Western painting’
Cimabue’s Louvre reappraisal owes much to ... the “Flagellation of Christ”, part of the Frick Collection in New York, and the “Madonna and Child Enthroned between Two Angels”, found ...
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The Louvre Opens Its First-Ever Cimabue Exhibition
Cimabue’s innovative attempts at three-dimensional ... Maestá is significant because it canonized a new visual representation of the Madonna and Child. The painting directly informed subsequent ...
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‘A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting’ Review: A Pivotal Pre-Renaissance Painter
Virtually nothing is known about the life of Cenni di Pepo, better known as Cimabue (c. 1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his ...