Episode 11 - A Survivor of the Flood
Part 1
Cimabue, Crucifix, c. 1265
Tempera on wood panel, 176 x 150 in (448 x 390 cm)
Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence
from Joel Brink, "Carpentry and Symmetry in Cimabue's Santa Croce Crucifix," Burlington Magazine, November 1978
Cimabue, Crucifix, 1261-71
Distemper and gold on wood panel, 132 x 105 in (336 x 267 cm)
Basilica of San Domenico, Arezzo
By Photo taken by Senet File:CrocifissoCimabue-Arezzo.JPG
Lara Broecke, Replica of Cimabue's Crucifix in Arezzo, 2005
Tempera on wood, c 79 in h (c 200 cm h)
Fisher House, Cambridge University Catholic Chaplaincy
Textile Fragment from the Chasuble of San Valerius, 13th century,
attributed to Spain
Silk, gilt animal substrate around a silk core; taqueté, 6 x 5 1/4 in (15.2 x13.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 46.156.3
Textile Fragment (detail), 14th–15th century,
attributed to Spain or North Africa
Silk; lampas, 29 3/4 x 45 3/8 in. (75.6 x 115.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 46.156.16
Giotto, Scenes from the Life of Christ: The Presentation at the Temple, 1304 - 06
Fresco, 79 x 73 in (200 x 185 cm)
Scrovegni Chapel, Padua
Giotto, Legend of St Francis: 13. Institution of the Crib at Greccio. 1297-1300
Fresco, 270 x 230 cm
Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
Giovanni del Biondo, St. John Gualberto Enthroned with Stories of His Life (detail,) c. 1370
Tempera on wood
Museum of Santa Croce, Florence
Altar of Santa Croce, Florence, 2023
Santa Croce, Florence
Photo credit: Sailko
Map of Florence, showing location of Santa Croce
Recommended Reading
Umberto Baldini and Ornella Cassazza, The Cimabue Crucifix, Published by Olivetti / Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1982
Joel Brink, "Carpentry and Symmetry in Cimabue's Santa Croce Crucifix," Burlington Magazine, October 1978
Lara Broecke, "The Reconstruction of an Early Italian Painted Crucifix: Method and Observations," Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung, Autumn 2009
A version of this study can be found at
https://www.hki.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/projects/paintingtechniques/crucifixrestoration
Marcia B. Hall, "The Tramezzo in S. Croce, Florence and Domenico Veneziano's Fresco," Burlington Magazine, December 1970
With thanks to Annika Finne for these references on textiles depicted on Crucifix aprons
Dino Campini, Giunta Pisano Capitini e le croci dipinti romaniche, Martello, 1966
Donal Cooper, "Projecting presence: the monumental cross in the Italian church interior," in Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects, eds. Robert Maniura and Rupert Shepherd, Aldershot, 2006
Anne Derbes, Picturing the Passion in Late Medieval Italy, Cambridge University Press, 1996 (p. 5, 178 footnote 18)
Angelo Tartuferi, Giunta Pisano, Soncino, 1991