Cimabue, c. 1240 – 1302, was an Italian painter and designer of mosaics from Florence. He was also known as Cenni di Pepo or Cenni di Pepi.
Santa Trinita Maestà, 1280–1285, Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
St. Francis of Assisi
Fresco in the Lower Basilica of Assisi
Crucifix, 1287–1288, Panel, 448 cm × 390 cm (176.4 in × 153.5 in), Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence
Italo-Byzantine is a style term in art history, mostly used for medieval paintings produced in Italy under heavy influence from Byzantine art. It initially covers religious paintings copying or imitating the standard Byzantine icon types, but painted by artists without a training in Byzantine techniques. These are versions of Byzantine icons, most of the Madonna and Child, but also of other subjects; essentially they introduced the relatively small portable painting with a frame to Western Europe. Very often they are on a gold ground. It was the dominant style in Italian painting until the end of the 13th century, when Cimabue and Giotto began to take Italian, or at least Florentine, painting into new territory. But the style continued until the 15th century and beyond in some areas and contexts.
Madonna and Child, Berlinghiero, c. 1230, tempera on wood, with gold ground, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Madonna and Child, with Annunciation, Flagellation & Crucifixion, mid-13th century
Late 13th-century triptych, probably by Grifo di Tancredi
The Cambrai Madonna, Italian, c. 1340. Tempera on cedar panel. 35.7 cm x 25.7 cm. Now Cambrai Cathedral, France.