Giovanni Cimabue

Giovanni Cimabue, who lived in Florence during the last part of the thirteenth century; he infused into his work a certain vigor and animation which were even more than a portent of the revival which was to come.

Women of the Romance Countries John Robert Effinger 1901

Her golden hair, her creamy-white dress, and that rich crimson scarf draped about her shoulders and falling across her knees would have made a Madonna's model that old Giovanni Cimabue himself would have joyed to copy.

Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

But it is now time to come to the life of Giovanni Cimabue, who originated the new method of design and painting, so that it is right that his should be the first of the Lives.

The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) Giorgio Vasari 1542

Giovanni Cimabue, the restorer of painting, was born at Florence, of a noble family, in 1240, and died in

Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri 1293

Cimabue: Giovanni Cimabue, 1240-1302, "ends the long Byzantine succession in Italy ....

An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869

While the sister art took these large strides towards fame, Painting lagged ruefully behind; she had no true models, and she had no true rules; but 'the time and the man' came at last, and this man was Giovanni Cimabue. "

Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) Shearjashub Spooner 1834