11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting' Review: A Pivotal Pre-Renaissance Painter
Paris
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 death, Dante praised him in 'Purgatory.' Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronounced that Cimabue had 'shed the first light on the art of painting.'
