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Cimabue

1240 - 1302

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Giovanni Cimabue ( CHEE-mə-BOO-ay, Italian: [tʃimaˈbuːe]; c. 1240 – 1302), also known as Cenni di Pepo or Cenni di Pepi, was an Italian painter and designer of mosaics from Florence. Although heavily influenced by Byzantine models, Cimabue is generally regarded as one of the first great Italian painters to break from the Italo-Byzantine style. Compared with the norms of medieval art, his works have more lifelike figural proportions and a more sophisticated use of shading to suggest volume. According to Italian painter and historian Giorgio Vasari, Cimabue was the teacher of Giotto, the first great artist of the Italian Proto-Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cimabue is the 91st most popular painter (down from 76th in 2019), the 327th most popular biography from Italy (down from 251st in 2019) and the 26th most popular Italian Painter.

Cimabue is most famous for his frescoes in the Upper Church of Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence.

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Among painters, Cimabue ranks 91 out of 2,023. Before him are Bronzino, Max Ernst, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, François Boucher, Duccio, and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. After him are Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Oskar Kokoschka, Honoré Daumier, Paolo Uccello, Vittore Carpaccio, and Paul Signac.

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Among people born in 1240, Cimabue ranks 2. Before him is Pope Benedict XI. After him are Yunus Emre, Arnolfo di Cambio, Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg, Boetius of Dacia, Abraham Abulafia, Siger of Brabant, Pietro Cavallini, Magnus III of Sweden, and Elizabeth the Cuman. Among people deceased in 1302, Cimabue ranks 1. After him are Arnolfo di Cambio, Constance of Sicily, Queen of Aragon, Gertrude the Great, Valdemar, King of Sweden, Robert II, Count of Artois, Muhammad II of Granada, Al-Hakim I, Blanche of Artois, Yolande of Aragon, Duchess of Calabria, and Henry III, Count of Bar.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Cimabue ranks 327 out of 5,161. Before him are Giuseppe Mazzini (1805), Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (-519), Pliny the Younger (61), Umberto I of Italy (1844), Duccio (1255), and Pope Eugene II (780). After him are Pope Liberius (310), Valentinian III (419), Longinus (100), Pope Benedict I (525), Hippolytus of Rome (170), and Toto Cutugno (1943).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Cimabue ranks 26. Before him are Andrea Mantegna (1431), Pietro Perugino (1446), Canaletto (1697), Bronzino (1503), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696), and Duccio (1255). After him are Paolo Uccello (1475), Vittore Carpaccio (1465), Sofonisba Anguissola (1535), Filippo Lippi (1406), Guido Reni (1575), and Antonio da Correggio (1489).

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