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 ...

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 ...

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 ...