Work History
Cimabue Discovers Giotto
Oil on Canvas
12" X 12"
The story goes that the great and famous painter Cimabue, who revitalized painting in the early Renaissance, happened to pass the young Giotto tending his family's sheep and drawing members of the herd. Cimabue stopped. Impressed by Giotto's drawing, he talked to his father about allowing the boy to join him as an assistant. Vasari said that Giotto eclipsed Cimabue's fame just as a great light eclipses a much smaller one.