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Brunelleschi Crucifix, Gondi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence 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.
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').
Crucifix Gallino is a sculpture displayed at the Bargello in Florence. In December 2008, the Italian government acquired another polychrome corpus sculpture for a crucifix in limewood from the antique dealer Giancarlo Gallino for €3.2 million, [2] [3] that is less than half the size of the Santo Spirito sculpture. It measures 41.3 by 39.7 ...
The Přemyslid Crucifix is a polychromed wooden cross from Jihlava dating from the first half of the 14th century. It is on display at the Picture Gallery of Strahov Monastery in Prague . In 2010, it was declared a national cultural monument by the Czech government.
Rafail's Cross is a famous wooden crucifix at Rila Monastery in Bulgaria.. The crucifix is a wooden cross made from a whole piece of wood (81 х 43 cm). It was whittled down by a monk named Rafail using fine burins and magnifying lenses to recreate 104 religious scenes and 650 miniature figures.
The Santa Croce Crucifix is one of the earliest and best-known examples of the type. [16] The work surpasses Cimabue's c. 1268 Arezzo crucifix in several ways. It is more human and less reliant on idealised facial types, [13] and the anatomy is more convincing. Christ's face is longer and narrower, and his nose is less idealised.