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The Crucifixion
Andrea da Firenze (Italian, 1379)
c. 1360s
- Medium
- tempera and gold on wood (walnut)
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 31 x 13.4 cm (12 3/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Italy, Florence
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Holden Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This panel was probably part of a small altarpiece of private devotion. The artist was active in Florence and Siena following the Black Death, which began in the late 1340s. His works, like others created during that troubled time, are charged with emotion.
