Reply #27: I agree. You beat me to the answer while I was searching for it. [View All]

[Divernan]

I wasted time searching for a crucifix by Andrea de Verrocchio.

I did find this, though:
Legacy

History has long regarded Cimabue as the last of an era that was overshadowed by the Italian Renaissance. In Canto XI of his Purgatorio, Dante laments Cimabue's quick loss of public interest in the face of Giotto's revolution in art:<2>

O vanity of human powers,
how briefly lasts the crowning green of glory,
unless an age of darkness follows!
In painting Cimabue thought he held the field
but now it's Giotto has the cry,
so that the other's fame is dimmed.