Example sentences for: cimabue

How can you use “cimabue” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The most cherished treasure in the Santa Croce Museum is Cimabue’s 13th-century massive Crucifixion, rescued and painstakingly restored after the town’s catastrophic 1966 flood.

  • Giotto breathes a warm humanity into his Madonna Enthroned (1310) that distinguishes it from the more formal pictures of the subject by Cimabue and Duccio in the same room.

  • All five enter Cicero/Cicéron, Cimabue, Goldoni, and Mary/Marie Stuart (Mary Queen of Scots) , but not Mondadori .

  • In the Upper Basilica, reopened in 2000 after intense round-the-clock restoration, Cimabue’s works in the apse and left transept have turned black, looking like photo negatives because of the oxidized white lead in his paints, yet you can still feel the intensity of the crowd’s anguish in his Crucifixion, blessedly untouched by the earthquake’s damaging force.

  • But Assisi’s frescoes of the saint’s life, painted by Cimabue and disciples of Giotto (which barely survived the severe earthquake of 1997), proved an immensely effective act of artistic propaganda against the prevalent libertinism and heresy.


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