Cimabue frescoes parts of the Basilica of …

Years: 1293 - 1293

Cimabue frescoes parts of the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi in the late 1280s and early 1290s with depictions of the Virgin, Christ, angels, the evangelists, and the Apocalypse, subjects reflecting the preaching of Saint Francis, who is entombed here.

Cimabue’s painterly exploration of real appearances and human feelings is instrumental in transforming Italian painting from its mannered Byzantine roots to a new, naturalistic assertiveness.

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