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Cross
Coppo di Marcovaldoca. 1260
Fondazione Musei Senesi
Siena, Italy
The Cross presents dynamic lateral storiettes of the Passion of Christ, in which the Christus Patiens with his deeply afflicted and aching body, recalls the work of the Byzantin style of Giunta Pisano but like in an illuminated manuscripts. In the final sections of the cross: on the top the Assumption of the Virgin, with a Blessing God; on the left the Virgin and Magdalen, on the right the three Mary.
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Details
- Title: Cross
- Creator Lifespan: documented from 1260 - documented until 1276
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: male
- Creator Birth Place: Florence
- Date Created: ca. 1260
- painter: Coppo di Marcovaldo
- collocation: San Gimignano, Civic Museums of San Gimignano: Palazzo Comunale, Picture Gallery, Big Tower, Province of Siena
- Place Part Of: Province of Siena
- Artist Biography: Coppo di Marcovaldo was a very appreciated Florentine artist who often got commissions in Siena-as well as the devotional Virgin painted for the Servite Church given by Coppo as a prisoner redempted. This Cross, where still many Byzantin elements survive, represents one of the more mature example of his career.
- Type: tempera on panel
- Rights: Comune di San Gimignano; Curia Arcivescovile di Siena, Colle di Val d'Elsa, Montalcino; Fondazione Musei Senesi, Fondazione Musei Senesi
- External Link: Fondazione Musei Senesi
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