Episode 12 - A Survivor of the Flood
Part 2
Cimabue, Crucifix, c. 1265
Tempera on wood panel, 176 x 150 in (448 x 390 cm)
Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence
Before 1966
The refectory of Santa Croce, Florence, 2023
Map of the Florence Flood, by Robert W. Nicholson, National Geographic, July 1967
Photos from National Geographic, July 1967
Piazza Santa Croce by Daniele Pettinari and A Mud Angel by Elio Sorci
Taking down the Crucifix a few days after the flood
On the way to the Boboli Limonaia
Photo from National Geographic, July 1967
Refectory of Santa Croce by Mondadori Press
During Treatment
The panel and the upper layers, separated
Before inpainting
Arriving at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982
After treatment, 2023
On display at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1983
Renstallation in the sacristy of Santa Croce, 2014
Cimabue, Crucifix, c. 1265
Tempera on wood panel, 176 x 150 in (448 x 390 cm)
Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence
2023
Recommended Reading
Umberto Baldini and Ornella Cassazza, The Cimabue Crucifix, Published by Olivetti / Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1982
Marco Ciatti. "Twentieth-Century Italian Conservators And Conservation Theory," The Burlington Magazine, October 2017
Robert Clark, Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces, Doubleday, 2008
Joseph Judge, "Florence Rises From the Flood," National Geographic, July 1967
Helen Spande, ed, Conservation Legacies of the Florence Flood of 1966, Archetype, 2009