Cimabue

[ chee-mah-boo-e ]

/ ˌtʃi mɑˈbu ɛ /

noun

Gio·van·ni

[jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/, Cenni di Pepo,c1240–1302?, Italian painter and mosaicist.

Example sentences from the Web for cimabue

Cimabue taught him all he knew, and in time the pupil eclipsed his master.

A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools |Various
And that fly which Giotto painted on the nose of Cimabue's painting!

Little Tony of Italy |Madeline Brandeis
The fame of Cimabue rests, and justly, on a similar charity.

Mornings in Florence |John Ruskin
When Cimabue discovered Giotto drawing his sheep, he took him into his school in the lodge, he being then a qualified Master.

The Cathedral Builders |Leader Scott

And even Cimabue did not venture to leave the sphere of conventionally reverenced dignity.

A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools |Various

British Dictionary definitions for cimabue

Cimabue

/ (Italian tʃimaˈbuːe) /

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

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