Cimabue
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Giovanni Cimabue, also known as Cenni di Pepo or Cenni di Pepi, was an Italian painter and designer of mosaics from Florence.
Fresco portrait by Andrea di Bonaiuto, c. 1366
Santa Trinita Maestà, 1280–1285, Uffizi Gallery, Florence
St. Francis of Assisi
Fresco in the Lower Basilica of Assisi
Giotto
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Giotto di Bondone, known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's cont
Cimabue
…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. However, many scholars today tend to discount Vasari's claim by citing earlier sources that…
Portrait by Andrea di Bonaiuto, c. 1366
One of the Legend of St. Francis frescoes at Assisi, the authorship of which is disputed
Drawing of Giotto's lost mosaic Navicella, made about 1420 and once owned by Vasari
Full-size copy in oils of Giotto's lost mosaic Navicella, made in 1628