This large painted wood crucifix, made in the early trecento (c. 1320), follows the conventions established by Giovanni Pisano, including the narrow waist, twisted body, and arms stretched painfully high above Christ's ...

The body of Christ is here shown full of pathos and suffering, with pronounced ribs, swelling from a tiny waist, stretched arms, head slumped to the side, and thin, bent knees with space between them. Christ's mouth hangs ...