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Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna Carried in Procession Through the Streets of Florence
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GenreReligious
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Frederic Leighton completed this vast canvas imagining the procession celebrating Cimabue's Madonna through the streets of Florence. The composition recreates medieval Tuscany with the historical accuracy and classical grandeur that made Leighton famous.
This painting launched Leighton's career when Queen Victoria purchased it. It remains one of the largest Victorian history paintings. The work is at the National Gallery in London.
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About Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna Carried in Procession Through the Streets of Florence
You can see it at National Gallery in London, UK. Frederic Leighton created it. This painting launched Leighton's career when Queen Victoria purchased it.
Cimabue was a 13th-century Florentine painter, traditionally considered Giotto's teacher and a founder of Italian Renaissance art You can see it at National Gallery.
It shows the medieval painter Cimabue's Rucellai Madonna being carried triumphantly through Florence's streets. Leighton painted this grand processional scene as his first Royal Academy success in 1855.
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