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 ...

his fresco program of around 1305 in the Arena Chapel in Padua, and the degraded state of Cimabue’s fresco cycles in the church of San Francesco in Assisi, painted after 1279 and the only such ...