Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronounced that Cimabue had “shed the first light on the art of painting.” “A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting,” an intimate and ...

Its medieval art masterpieces, such as the Basilica of San Francesco and paintings by Cimabue, Pietro Lorenzetti, Simone Martini and Giotto, have made Assisi a fundamental reference point for the ...