Crucifix
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Christ , Crucifixion , Passion , Cross
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This fifteenth-century crucifix (in Santa Margherita in Montefiascone) was badly damaged in a fire and thus has lost large parts of the polychrome surface. Sara Cavatorti notes similarities to a crucifix in Sant'Agostino in Rome (a similar curve to the body and knot on the loincloth), though this is hard to judge given the poor state of preservation. Cavatorti suggests that these both may be the works of German artists, and certainly German artists specializing in crucifixes are documented to have been working in Italy in this period, but there has been a tendency for scholars to assume that naturalistic crucifixes that emphasize Christ's suffering are foreign to Italy, made by Germans, but the large number of such works surviving in Italy from this period attest to a local taste for this imagery. The golden calligraphic swirls behind the crucifix were added in a later century. Photograph(s) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Santa Margherita, Montefiascone
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Sara Cavatorti, "La scultura lignea tra Umbria e Lazio al tempo di Piermatteo d'Amelia," in Pittura e scultura nel Patrimonium tusciae al tempo di Piermatteo d'Amelia, ed. Sara Cavatorti (Orte: Ente Ottava Medievale di Orte -- Centro Studi per il Patrimonio di S. Pietro in Tuscia, 2022), pp. 125-6.