Editing Cimabue (section)

{{Short description|Italian artist (1240–1302)}}
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[[File:Cimabue - Maestà di Santa Trinita - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''[[Santa Trinita Maestà]]'', 1280–1285, [[Uffizi|Uffizi Gallery]], Florence]]

'''Giovanni Cimabue''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|tʃ|iː|m|ə|ˈ|b|uː|eɪ}} {{respell|CHEE|mə|BOO|ay}},<ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster|Cimabue}}</ref> {{IPA|it|tʃimaˈbuːe|lang}}; {{c.|1240}} – 1302),<ref name=vas>{{cite book|author=Giorgio Vasari|author-link=Giorgio Vasari|title=[[Lives of the Artists]]}} Translated with an introduction and notes by J.C. and P Bondanella. Oxford: [[Oxford University Press]] (Oxford World's Classics), 1991, pp. 7–14. {{ISBN|978-0-19-953719-8}}.</ref> also known as '''Cenni di Pepo'''<ref name="Clarke">{{Cite book|title=Pseudonyms|author=Joseph F. Clarke|publisher=BCA|date=1977|page=38}}</ref> or '''Cenni di Pepi''',<ref>{{cite book|author1=J. A. Crowe|author2=G. B. Calvalcaselle|title=A History of Painting in Italy; Umbria, Florence and Siena from the Second to the Sixteenth Century|volume=1|publisher=AMS Press|year=1975|page=202}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/cimabue|title=Cimabue|work=[[Collins English Dictionary]]|publisher=[[HarperCollins]]|access-date=12 May 2019}}</ref> was an [[Italian people|Italian]] painter and designer of [[mosaic]]s from [[Florence]].

Although heavily influenced by Byzantine models, Cimabue is generally regarded as one of the first great Italian painters to break from the [[Italo-Byzantine]] style.<ref>{{cite book|author=Fred Kleiner|year=2008|title=Gardner's Art through the Ages: A Global History|volume=2|publisher=Cengage Learning EMEA|page=502}}</ref> Compared with the norms of [[medieval art]], his works have more lifelike figural proportions and a more sophisticated use of shading to suggest volume. According to Italian painter and historian [[Giorgio Vasari]], Cimabue was the teacher of [[Giotto]],<ref name=vas/> the first great artist of the Italian [[Proto-Renaissance]]. However, many scholars today tend to discount Vasari's claim by citing earlier sources that suggest otherwise.<ref name="Hayden B.J. Maginnis 2004">{{cite book|author=Hayden B.J. Maginnis|section=In Search of an Artist|editor1=Anne Derbes|editor2=Mark Sandona|title=The Cambridge Companion to Giotto|location=Cambridge|year=2004|pages=12–13}}</ref>