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... died about 1302 . 99 To Cimabue for three centuries had been awarded the lofty title of " Father of Modern Painting ; and to him , on the authority of Vasari , had been ascribed the merit , or rather the miracle , of having revived the ...
... died about 1302 . 99 To Cimabue for three centuries had been awarded the lofty title of " Father of Modern Painting ; and to him , on the authority of Vasari , had been ascribed the merit , or rather the miracle , of having revived the ...
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... died at Florence about the year 1302 , while employed on the mosaics of the Duomo of Pisa , and was carried from his house , in the Via del Cocomero , to the church of Santa Maria del Fiore , where he was buried . The following epitaph ...
... died at Florence about the year 1302 , while employed on the mosaics of the Duomo of Pisa , and was carried from his house , in the Via del Cocomero , to the church of Santa Maria del Fiore , where he was buried . The following epitaph ...
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... died in 1225 ; and the earliest head after nature which remains to us was painted by Giunta Pisano , about 1235. It was the portrait of Frate Elia , a monk of Assisi . Perhaps Vasari means that the San Francesco was the first ...
... died in 1225 ; and the earliest head after nature which remains to us was painted by Giunta Pisano , about 1235. It was the portrait of Frate Elia , a monk of Assisi . Perhaps Vasari means that the San Francesco was the first ...
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... died , very old , in 1294 ; and his principal works remain in the Duomo of St. Mark , at Venice , and in the church of San Giovanni , at Florence . Another famous mosaic - worker , also an intimate friend of Cimabue , was Gaddo Gaddi ...
... died , very old , in 1294 ; and his principal works remain in the Duomo of St. Mark , at Venice , and in the church of San Giovanni , at Florence . Another famous mosaic - worker , also an intimate friend of Cimabue , was Gaddo Gaddi ...
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... excepted ) still worked on in the trammels of Byzantine art . The first painter of his age who threw them wholly off , and left them far behind him , was Giotto . GIOTTO . Born 1276 , died 1386 . Credette Cimabue 24 EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS .
... excepted ) still worked on in the trammels of Byzantine art . The first painter of his age who threw them wholly off , and left them far behind him , was Giotto . GIOTTO . Born 1276 , died 1386 . Credette Cimabue 24 EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS .
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