This week I look at Cimabue’s Santa Trinita Maestá c.1290-1300.
Painted for the church of Santa Trinita in Florence.
Cimabue is considered by many to be the start of, or a precursor to, the Renaissance or what’s known as the Proto-Renaissance.
Although his art is heavily influenced by the Byzantine style, his more lifelike proportions and shading mark an advance over his predecessors and bring us out of the medieval period and into the Renaissance.
Some of his other works:
The Madonna Enthroned with St. Francis in the Basilica of St. Francis
and his Crucifix at Santa Croce
