“The present eye praises the present object: Then marvel not, thou great and complete man, That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax; Since things in motion sooner catch the eye Than what not stirs. The cry went once on thee; And still it might, and yet it may again, If thou wouldst not entomb thyself alive, And case thy reputation in thy tent.”

Cimabue died in 1300. His epitaph is:

“Credidit ut Cimabos picturae castra tenere,

Sic tenuit vivens, nunc tenet astra poli.”

“Credidit ut Cimabos picturae castra tenere, Sic tenuit vivens, nunc tenet astra poli.”