Crucifix with Mourning Virgin and St. John the Evangelist

ca. 1270-1290 (Medieval)

227.5 cm 250.7 cm 4 cm

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This massive crucifix probably hung above the main altar of a church at the juncture between the nave and the sanctuary; the work presents a haunting figure of Christ. Christ's head falls forward while the swaying curve of his dead body is suspended from his bloody hands and o...

Drawing

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, prior to 1897 [1897 catalogue: no. 43 as Margaritone d'Arezzo]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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Gothic
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