Cimabue valuation
Florentine painter of the thirteenth century who began to give Byzantine figures weight and feeling.
Cimabue (about 1240–1302), born Cenni di Pepo in Florence, worked in the Byzantine manner of his day and began to loosen it, giving his figures more weight and his faces more feeling.
What a work by Cimabue is worth
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Bio
Cimabue (about 1240–1302), born Cenni di Pepo in Florence, worked in the Byzantine manner of his day and began to loosen it, giving his figures more weight and his faces more feeling. His large painted crucifix for Santa Croce in Florence was badly damaged by the Arno flood of 1966 and has since been restored. The Maestà he painted for Santa Trinita, now in the Uffizi, is among his best-known panels, and he also worked on the frescoes of the Basilica of Saint Francis at Assisi. In the Divine Comedy Dante names him as the painter whose fame Giotto overtook.
Very few works by him survive and almost all are in churches and museums. The rare exceptions make news: a small panel of The Mocking of Christ was found in a house in northern France in 2019. Anything offered with his name needs technical study of the panel and gilding, comparison with accepted works, and the opinion of a specialist in Italian painting of the period. Much more common are works described as by followers or as from the Florentine school, which are valued quite differently.
At a glance
- Born
- 1240, Florence
- Died
- 1302, Pisa
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