Virtually nothing is known about the life of Cenni di Pepo, better known as Cimabue (c. 1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his ...

A violent hailstorm on Saturday caused water to drip into the room hosting the important show, but “no works were damaged”, a ...

For this reason, A New Look at Cimabue at the Louvre offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to see numerous works by this legendary artist in a single room. Cimabue catalyzed the fleshy ...

But if great artists stand on the shoulders of giants, what Giotto achieved can only be measured if the strides Cimabue made beyond his forebears’ accomplishments are established. Thomas Bohl, the ...