Cimabue, Giovanni is the Italian artist.

Cimabue, Giovanni is the Italian artist, one of the leading masters of XIII-th century Florentine painting. He was the last Italian artist to work in the Byzantine manner. Italian painting before Cimabue was called Byzantine. Types of images, conventions of drawing, color - everything was repeated by Italian artists an infinite number of times. However, Cimabue was able to achieve high mastery in creating a rigid, structural form and a clear, logically verified composition, especially in late works.

The fresco "Our Lady on the Throne with St. Francis" was painted by master in the mid-1290s, when Cimabue came to Assisi and painted several frescoes in the lower church of St. Francis. St.Francis is almost the most revered saint in Italy. Face of the XIII-th Saint with almost ugly and at the same time spiritualized features is completely devoid of any ideal typification and has an acutely individual character. It makes one believe in the message of Vasari and some other authors that Cimabue was one of the first artists who began to paint images from real people, "imitating nature." A fundamentally new quality, embedded in the image of St. Francis wasn't developed in the last period of Cimabue's work. Later frescoes demonstrate a compromise style combining diverse features, but generally remaining within the framework of the medieval art system. Cimabue as soon as touched the reform of Giotto and immediately returned to more organic forms of artistic vision for him.

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