Cimabue - Finestre sull'Arte

When Giotto and Cimabue were in Pisa. The church of San Francesco

In 2015 ago the church of St. Francis in Pisa, the second largest in the Tuscan city after the monumental cathedral, was closed due to a partial roof collapse that compromised the safety of the holy place. Then, in the last months of 2023, the Superi...
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Supercult. Luisa Becherucci on Cimabue

The uncertainty in accepting the attribution to Cimabue, proposed by Thode for the work never remembered in the sources and lacking any documentation, was mainly due to the state of preservation that allowed only to guess at it not to fully evaluate ...
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Florence, Cimabue's Santa Croce Crucifix back on view for all to see

After nearly two years, from Saturday, December 4, Cimabue's Christ will once again be visible to all visitors to the monumental complex of Santa Croce. Since the beginning of the pandemic, in fact, theOpera di Santa Croce had been forced, due to ant...
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Giotto, Dante and Cimabue arrive on the Gulf of Poets. Lia Museum exhibition.

Lunigiana, as is well known, is a land dotted with Dante's traces, albeit fragmentary and with few certain data. We do know for sure that Dante, on the morning of October 6, 1306, was in Sarzana, in Piazza della Calcandola, today's Piazza de...
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La Spezia, Giotto and Dante's relationship evoked by great masterpieces on display

From October 2 to January 23, 2022, the "Amedeo Lia" Museum of La Spezia is hosting the exhibition Dante and Giotto. Dialogue and suggestion, curated by Andrea Marmori and Francesca Giorgi. Promoted by the Municipality of La Spezia, the exhibition is...
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Ravenna, major exhibition dedicated to art at the time of Dante's exile kicks off

Opening May 8 and open until July 4, 2021, the exhibition Dante. The Eyes and the Mind. The Arts at the Time of Exile, set up at the Church of San Romualdo in Ravenna. Curated by Massimo Medica (Director of the Musei Civici d'Arte Antica in Bologna) ...
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Cimabue, Duccio or Giotto? The enigmatic Madonna of Castelfiorentino, a crucial work in our art history

It is truly impressive to scroll through the bibliography on the extraordinary late 13th-century Madonna and Child preserved at the Museum of Santa Verdiana in Castelfiorentino, in the hills of Valdelsa. Many of the greatest art historians of all...
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