‘A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting’ Review: A Pivotal Pre-Renaissance Painter
A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory ...
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Woman Learns The ‘Fake’ Renaissance Painting She Kept Over Her Stove Was Actually A 700-Year-Old Masterpiece
"I immediately thought it was a work of Italian primitivism. But I didn't imagine it was a Cimabue," said the auctioneer who was first to examine the painting.
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How This Medieval Master Sparked the Renaissance
It’s not everyday that you find a priceless artwork hanging over a kitchen stove. Rarer still is it to stumble across one of the exceptionally few paintings that can confidently be attributed to ...
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As Siena’s art takes to the world stage, the Italian city is undergoing a renewal
At the Musée du Louvre, a new show on the Florentine painter Cimabue features panel paintings by Duccio, the great Sienese artist of the early Renaissance. But there is also a great deal ...
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the Town of a Second Christ: Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
Its medieval art masterpieces, such as the Basilica of San Francesco and paintings by Cimabue, Pietro Lorenzetti, Simone Martini and Giotto, have made Assisi a fundamental reference point for the ...