In Francesco Bini’s pre-restoration photo, the Madonna ... Cimabue used; the blue feathers in the angels’ wings likewise shimmer. Cimabue, “The Virgin Mary and the Christ Child enthroned ...

Measuring nearly 14 feet tall and 9 feet wide, the tempera and gold leaf panel painting shows the Madonna enthroned ... pivotal Cimabue’s “Maestà” was for his contemporaries. Close to ...

Drips fell about one metre away from Duccio di Buoninsegna’s Madonna of ... platform supporting Cimabue’s Maestà (its title, “majesty” in Italian, refers to the enthroned Virgin and ...

In the beginning there was Cimabue, “who was to shed the ... part of the Frick Collection in New York, and the “Madonna and Child Enthroned between Two Angels”, found under a staircase ...

For centuries, the Italian painter Cimabue has been overshadowed by his ... would probably have allowed friars to study the paintings’ details up close. The discovery of iron inlays believed ...

Virtually nothing is known about the life of Cenni di Pepo, better known as Cimabue (c. 1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his ...