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Cimabue

Cenni di Petro (Giovanni) Cimabue (c.1240-1302) was a Florentine painter and creator of mosaics, better known as the artist who discovered Giotto and with him moved towards treating figures as individuals.

His life was described in Giorgio Vasari's Vite.

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