According to tradition (as cited in an inscription from the early seventeenth century), this small crucifix belonged to Girolamo Savonarola, the fiery preacher and prophet who briefly ruled Florence before he was executed ...

A recent restoration in 2012 has established an attribution of this painted wood crucifix to Baccio da Montelupo, a sculptor who led a successful workshop in Florence in the second half of the fifteenth century. Similar ...

Scholars believe this painted wood Crucifix was an early work by Pietro Torrigiano, a sculptor who trained in the Giardino di San Marco in Florence and later worked in England and Spain. This sculpture is the only one made ...

This painted wood crucifix by an unknown artist once hung in a prominent position above the high altar in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. As is typical of crucifixes from the late fifteenth century, Jesus hangs in ...

This painted wooden crucifix is dated to the third quarter of the fourteenth century on the basis of style. This large crucifix has its original polychromy, revealed when restorers removed layers of repaint. As is typical ...

This painted wooden crucifix is undocumented, but after cleaning removed two layers of heavy repaint that had obscured the surface, revealing the original polychromy, scholars agree that it is the work of the Sienese ...

This large (life-sized) crucifix was made for a hospital, the Ospedale di Santa Fina in San Gimignano, possibly for the men's infirmary, as inventories seem to confirm its longtime placement there. In such hospitals and ...

This painted wood crucifix, datable on stylistic grounds to the early fourteenth century, is housed in Sant'Agostino in San Gimignano. The attentuated, painfully stretched arms, protruding ribs, concave abdomen, contracted ...

This painted terracotta sculpture is in one of the chapels of the Sacro Monte at San Vivaldo. The Sacro Monte (literally sacred mountain) is a pilgrimage site built by the Franciscans. Small chapels each contain painted ...

This painted wood crucifix , made sometime in the 1300s, is housed in San Francesco in Prato. This church was endowed with many works of art by Francesco Datini starting in 1383, but much of the work he commissioned has ...