Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels and Prophets. ˋSanta Trinità Maestà´
Cimabue · 1290
Cimabue
Republic of Florence · 1240–1302
Giovanni Cimabue, also known as Cenni di Pepo or Cenni di Pepi, was an Italian painter and designer of mosaics from Florence. 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. Compared with the norms of medieval art, his works have more lifelike figural proportions 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 suggest otherwise.
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Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels and Prophets. ˋSanta Trinità Maestà´
Cimabue · 1290
Uffizi Gallery
The Santa Trinita Maestà is a panel painting by the Italian medieval artist Cimabue, dating to c. Originally painted for the church of Santa Trinita, Florence, where it remained until 1471, it is now in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy. It represents the Madonna enthroned with the Christ Child, who are surrounded by eight angels and, below, four half portraits of prophets.
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