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Granted, the figure — part side of beef, part worm, part human — which writhes down the right-hand panel was inspired by Cimabue's Crucifixion ( "I always think of that as a worm crawling down a cross," says Bacon).
Tragedian Richardson, John 1965
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Giotto's faces -- the eyes set near together, their too great length, though much better in this respect than Cimabue's, and the broad, rounded chins -- they turned away.
Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters Deristhe L. Hoyt
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Put yourself in old Cimabue's place and in that of the people who had known only such figures in painting as the _Magdalen_ you saw last week in the Academy.
Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters Deristhe L. Hoyt
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"What kind of painting is it?" queried Barbara, as a few minutes later they stood in the little chapel, and looked up at Cimabue's quaint
Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters Deristhe L. Hoyt
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You know how much you found of interest and to admire in Giotto's pictures when you compared them with Cimabue's and with the old Greek Byzantine paintings.
Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters Deristhe L. Hoyt
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"What do you think was the cause of Cimabue's taking such an advance step, Mr. Sumner?" asked Howard Sinclair, after a pause, during which all studied the picture.
Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters Deristhe L. Hoyt
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The great painters of Italy would have been sterile had not the citizens of Florence been eager to carry Cimabue's masterpiece in triumph through the streets.
Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter
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Borgo Allegri, whence the Florentines say they bore Cimabue's Madonna in triumph to S. Maria Novella.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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However reluctant we may be to find Vasari, that divine gossip, at fault, it might seem that Cimabue's
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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Cimabue's Madonna had been carried through the streets in glory.
Prose Fancies (Second Series) Richard Le Gallienne 1906
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