11 Facts About Cimabue

The art historian Pietro Toesca attributed the Crucifixion in the church of San Domenico in Arezzo to Cimabue, dating around 1270, making it the earliest known attributed work that departs from the Byzantine style.

Cimabue's Christ is bent, and the clothes have the golden striations that were introduced by Coppo di Marcovaldo.

Around 1272, Cimabue is documented as being present in Rome, and a little later he made another Crucifix for the Florentine church of Santa Croce.

Cimabue asked if Giotto would like to come and stay with him, which the child accepted with his father's permission.

Vasari elaborates that during Giotto's apprenticeship, he allegedly painted a fly on the nose of a portrait Cimabue was working on; the teacher attempted to sweep the fly away several times before he understood his pupil's prank.

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Around 1280, Cimabue painted the Maesta, originally displayed in the church of San Francesco at Pisa, but now at the Louvre.

Cimabue was commissioned to decorate the apse and the transept of the Upper Basilica of Assisi, in the same period of time that Roman artists were decorating the nave.

Cimabue spent the last period of his life, 1301 to 1302, in Pisa.

Cimabue was to create the part of the mosaic depicting St John the Evangelist, which remains the sole surviving work documented as being by the artist.

Cimabue'story has long regarded Cimabue as the last of an era that was overshadowed by the Italian Renaissance.

Cimabue serves to represent the fleeting nature of fame in contrast with the Enduring God.