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CIMABUE
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• CIMABUE (noun)
The noun CIMABUE has 1 sense:
1. painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302)
Familiarity information: CIMABUE used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Cimabue; Giovanni Cimabue
Instance hypernyms:
old master (a great European painter prior to 19th century)
Context examples
And I have seen the aged Giotto, and he in turn was pupil to Cimabue, before whom there was no art in Italy, for the Greeks were brought to paint the chapel of the Gondi at Florence.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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