The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . az< az EZo _)<:O < o CO Q J 3« 6 V 11 V. DEVELOPMENT) PAINTING 469 enthroned Madonna in the Rucellai chapel of S. Maria Novellaat Florence, ascribed by Vasari to Cimabue, is now assignedby many to Duccio of Siena, and presents similar attractivequalities. Cimabue, a Florentine contemporary of Cavalliniand Duccio, is famed in story as the chief representative of thepainting of this period, but we possess no certain works from hishand except his mosaic at Pisa. His style would probablycorre
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . az< az EZo _)<:O < o CO Q J 3« 6 V 11 V. DEVELOPMENT) PAINTING 469 enthroned Madonna in the Rucellai chapel of S. Maria Novellaat Florence, ascribed by Vasari to Cimabue, is now assignedby many to Duccio of Siena, and presents similar attractivequalities. Cimabue, a Florentine contemporary of Cavalliniand Duccio, is famed in story as the chief representative of thepainting of this period, but we possess no certain works from hishand except his mosaic at Pisa. His style would probablycorrespond to that of the painters just mentioned. His chiefimportance for our purpose resides in the fact that he was theteacher of the Florentine Giotto. If the artists just referred to represent a revived classicismrather than a fresh and independent study of nature, Giotto isessentially a creation of the Gothic movement and his closeassociation with the Franciscan cycle of ideas brings this factinto clearer relief. Giotto is in no way dependent on the studyof the antique, but relies on his own steady and penetrating out-look upon man and upon
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