Crucifix 1370–75 Master of the Orcagnesque Misericordia Italian This crucifix could have been displayed on an altar or carried in processions. Christ is shown alive on one side and dead on the other while the terminals on one side are decorated with the four Evangelists and on the other with Mary, John the Evangelist (both present at the Crucifixion), and Saints Francis and Anthony of Padua. The artist was a gifted follower of Orcagna, the greatest Florentine painter of the middle years of the fourteenth Crucifix. Master of the Orcagnesque Misericordia (Italian, Florence, active seco
Crucifix 1370–75 Master of the Orcagnesque Misericordia Italian This crucifix could have been displayed on an altar or carried in processions. Christ is shown alive on one side and dead on the other while the terminals on one side are decorated with the four Evangelists and on the other with Mary, John the Evangelist (both present at the Crucifixion), and Saints Francis and Anthony of Padua. The artist was a gifted follower of Orcagna, the greatest Florentine painter of the middle years of the fourteenth Crucifix. Master of the Orcagnesque Misericordia (Italian, Florence, active second half 14th century). 1370–75. Tempera on wood, gold ground. Paintings
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