15" Tall order Vintage Catholic Home Wall Mount Cimabue Inspired All Metal Crucifix

Vintage Byzantine Style Metal Crucifix

This crucifix was inspired by the Crucifixion painting by the Italian Byzantine Style painter & mosaicist Giovanni Cimabue. Cimabue was born in Florence of a respectable family, which seems to have borne the name of Gualtieri, as well as that of Cimabue (Bullhead). The large Crucifixion fresco was commissioned by the Franciscan friars of Santa Croce and built from a complex arrangement of five main and eight ancillary timber boards. The painting is one of the first Italian artworks to break from the late medieval Byzantine style and is renowned for its technical innovations and humanistic iconography.

This Cimabue style vintage crucifix will grace your altar with order beauty and Old World charm. It is constructed of brightly gilded metal and measures 15" tall x 7" wide and extends 1 1/4" high from the wall when hung. The cross is adorned with decorative radiant cuts on the front. The presentation of the corpus is reverent and well detailed. We see a figure of Christ whose sculptural body is realistically rendered with a defined musculature and detailed features. The realistic slump of the body, together with the strain of his outstretched arms, graphically depicts human suffering. His loin cloth while beautifully draped just below the waist is a stark symbol of the humiliation he went through in the hands of his tormentors.

The crucifix weighs about 1 1/2 lbs. before packaging. Will ship boxed via USPS Priority Mail.

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