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  2. Crucifix (Cimabue, Santa Croce) - Wikipedia

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    The Crucifix by Cimabue at Santa Croce ( c. 1265) is a very large wooden crucifix, painted in distemper, attributed to the Florentine painter and mosaicist Cimabue, one of two large crucifixes attributed to him. [1] The work was commissioned by the Franciscan friars of Santa Croce and is built from a complex arrangement of five main and eight ...

  3. True Cross - Wikipedia

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    Provenance The Queen of Sheba venerates the wood from which the Cross will be made (fresco by Piero della Francesca in San Francesco, Arezzo). The Golden Legend. In the Latin-speaking traditions of Western Europe, the story of the pre-Christian origins of the True Cross was well established by the 13th century when, in 1260, it was recorded by Jacobus de Voragine, Bishop of Genoa, in the ...

  4. Brunelleschi Crucifix - Wikipedia

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    Brunelleschi Crucifix. The Brunelleschi Crucifix is a polychrome painted wooden sculpture by the Italian artist Filippo Brunelleschi, made from pearwood around 1410-1415, and displayed since 1572 in the Gondi Chapel at the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. This idealised depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus measures around 170 cm × ...

  5. Instrument of Jesus' crucifixion - Wikipedia

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    The instrument of Jesus' crucifixion (known in Latin as crux, in Greek as stauros) is generally taken to have been composed of an upright wooden beam to which was added a transom, thus forming a "cruciform" or T -shaped structure. Most Christian denominations present the Christian cross in this form, and the tradition of the T-shape can be ...

  6. Crucifix (Cimabue, Arezzo) - Wikipedia

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    The Crucifix by Cimabue at Arezzo is a large wooden crucifix painted in distemper, with gold leaf, by the Florentine painter and mosaicist Cimabue, dated to c. 1267–71. It is the earliest of two large crucifixes attributed to him. [1] It shows a painted representation of the near dead body of Christ on the cross, with Mary, mother of Jesus ...

  7. Crucifix - Wikipedia

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    A crucifix (from the Latin cruci fixus meaning ' (one) fixed to a cross') is a cross with an image of Jesus on it, as distinct from a bare cross. The representation of Jesus himself on the cross is referred to in English as the corpus (Latin for 'body'). [1] [2] The crucifix emphasizes Jesus ' sacrifice, including his death by crucifixion ...

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