and the influence Cimabue exerted on his contemporaries and successors. A remarkable series of 13th-century depictions of the ...

the Madonna’s robes are a dull, muddied navy. Now restored to a luminous bright blue, they showcase the gem grade lapis lazuli blue pigment that Cimabue used; the blue feathers in the angels ...

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 ...

It narrowly missed Giovanni Cimabue's unprotected Maestà wooden ... droplets fell no more than a meter away from Duccio di Buoninsegna's Madonna of the Franciscans (1285-88).

Water from a hailstorm leaked into the Musée du Louvre on Saturday (3 May), almost dripping on Cimabue’s Maestà, arguably the greatest early Western European painting. Dating from 1280-85, it ...

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 ...

Rarer still is it to stumble across one of the exceptionally few paintings that can confidently be attributed to the Medieval Italian master, Cimabue. Back in the 13th century, his pioneering yet ...

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 ...