They suggest how pivotal Cimabue’s “Maestà” was for his contemporaries. Close to the “Maestà” we find “St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata” (c. 1298) by Giotto, who is thought to ...

Apprenticed to Cimabue, young Giotto soon surpassed his master; departing from the rigid codes of Byzantine-influenced medieval art, he "brought back to life the true art of painting, introducing ...

Many art historians believe that Cimabue was Giotto’s teacher, and that he also had a considerable influence over the similarly important Sienese painter Duccio di Buonisegna, soon to be the ...

In the beginning there was Cimabue, “who was to shed the first light on the art of painting” – until he was “eclipsed” by his pupil Giotto. The story, told by Giorgio Vasari in his ...

Giotto changed all that ... Among the other prominent painters that employed fresco were Cimabue, Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli.