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Cimabue [chee-mah-boo-e] EXAMPLES| noun Gio·van·ni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/, Cenni di Pepo, c1240–1302?, Italian painter and mosaicist. Liberaldictionary.com
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for cimabue Historical Examples of cimabue
To Cimabue succeeded his pupil, the famous Giotto, who died in 1337.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327
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Cimabue, the reviver of painting, received instruction from the Greeks.
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It cannot be proved that a single picture attributed to Cimabue was painted by him.
Thomas Okey
Cimabue revolutionized painting, and then “the cry was Giotto’s.”
Stray Studies from England and Italy
John Richard Greene
The circumstances of the finding of Giotto by Cimabue are well known.
John Ruskin
British Dictionary definitions for cimabue Cimabue noun 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 Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
