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Cimabue

1240 - 1302

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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. While medieval art then was scenes and forms that appeared relatively flat and highly stylized, Cimabue's figures were depicted with more advanced lifelike proportions and shading than other artists of his time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cimabue has received more than 620,429 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Cimabue is the 83rd most popular painter, the 270th most popular biography from Italy (down from 252nd 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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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Cimabue ranks 83 out of 1,421Before him are François Boucher, Lili Elbe, Honoré Daumier, Paul Signac, Fra Angelico, and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. After him are Francisco de Zurbarán, Paolo Uccello, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Berthe Morisot, Jean-Antoine Watteau, and Max Ernst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1240, Cimabue ranks 2Before him is Pope Benedict XI. After him are Yunus Emre, Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Arnolfo di Cambio, Abraham Abulafia, Pietro Cavallini, Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg, Siger of Brabant, Magnus III of Sweden, Emperor Duzong, and Boetius of Dacia. Among people deceased in 1302, Cimabue ranks 1After 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, Blanche of Artois, Al-Hakim I, and Yolande of Aragon, Duchess of Calabria.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Cimabue ranks 270 out of 4,668Before him are Zita of Bourbon-Parma (1892), Pope Adeodatus I (570), Umberto II of Italy (1904), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), Pope Benedict XIII (1649), and Pope John VIII (820). After him are Tommaso Campanella (1568), Pope Eugene III (1080), Pope Adrian I (700), Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810), Pope Alexander I (100), and Pope Fabian (200).

Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Cimabue ranks 22Before him are Giovanni Bellini (1430), Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448), Piero della Francesca (1415), Pietro Perugino (1446), Andrea Mantegna (1431), and Fra Angelico (1400). After him are Paolo Uccello (1475), Lisa del Giocondo (1479), Filippo Lippi (1406), Vittore Carpaccio (1465), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696), and Duccio (1255).