biography
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Cimabue
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originally Cenni di Peppi
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pronunciation:
[cheemabooay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1240–c.1302)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Florence, NC Italy. He adopted traditional Byzantine forms at first, but soon turned to nature, and led the way to the naturalism of his great pupil, Giotto. He executed several important frescoes in the Church of St Francis at Assisi; these were destroyed or severely damaged in an earthquake in 1997. |
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