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Cimabue

1240 - 1302

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Giovanni Cimabue (Italian: [tʃimaˈbuːe]), 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cimabue has received more than 647,679 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia. Cimabue is the 76th most popular painter (up from 83rd in 2019), the 251st most popular biography from Italy (up from 269th in 2019) and the 22nd 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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  • 650k

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  • 73.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Cimabue ranks 76 out of 2,023. Before him are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Piero della Francesca, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Ilya Repin, and Francisco de Zurbarán. After him are Gustave Doré, Diego Rivera, François Boucher, Alfred Sisley, Jackson Pollock, and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

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Contemporaries

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, Abraham Abulafia, Magnus III of Sweden, Boetius of Dacia, Siger of Brabant, Emperor Duzong, and Pietro Cavallini. Among people deceased in 1302, Cimabue ranks 1. After him are Arnolfo di Cambio, Gertrude the Great, Constance of Sicily, Queen of Aragon, 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 251 out of 5,161. Before him are Pliny the Younger (61), Pope Alexander VIII (1610), Pope Leo I (390), Cesare Lombroso (1835), Pope John XV (1000), and Diodorus Siculus (-90). After him are Pope John XIX (975), Luigi Pirandello (1867), Padre Pio (1887), Pope Adrian I (700), Pope Clement XI (1649), and Pope Gregory X (1210).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Cimabue ranks 22. Before him are Giorgione (1478), Artemisia Gentileschi (1593), Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448), Giovanni Bellini (1430), Piero della Francesca (1415), and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696). After him are Canaletto (1697), Pietro Perugino (1446), Duccio (1255), Paolo Uccello (1475), Antonio da Correggio (1489), and Lisa del Giocondo (1479).

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